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

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Author: Mark Taylor
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Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] PCRE feature request - "backwards" search

hi philip,

On 19/09/2010 14:27, Philip Hazel wrote:
> But that is normal PCRE behaviour ... it identifies the entire substring
> that matched by giving its start and end offsets.

forgive if I am being slow here... but if I add .* at the start of the
RE, won't that make it match everything from the start of the subject
string?

mark.

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