Re: [pcre-dev] Assertions with quantifier behaviour is Perl

On 2011-05-02 15:48, Herczeg Zoltán wrote:
>It is true, that you may have several forms to achive the same purpose,
> but I would prefer a conditional block here since that would be much
> more reasonable: (?(?=a(b)))
>

And then you meet another compatibility problem:
PCRE unlike Perl don't capture subpatterns in assertions-conditions.
Here is pcretest listing:


PCRE version 8.11 2010-12-10
/(?(?=a(b)).*d\1|.*d)/s
abdb
0: bd