Re: [pcre-dev] PCRE feature request - "backwards" search

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: M.Taylor
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Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] PCRE feature request - "backwards" search
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, M.Taylor wrote: 

>    1. the option to return the last (most "right-hand") match instead of
>    the first; *and*

That is handled by my previous suggestion. 

>    2. return the left-hand (or "start") point of the matching substring,
>    in addition to the right-hand (or "end") point of the match.

But that is normal PCRE behaviour ... it identifies the entire substring
that matched by giving its start and end offsets.

Philip

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