Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: ND CC: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] 'Hard' partial matching don't work with some
assertions
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, ND wrote:
> Incomplete string (pcre_exec with partial 'hard' option) can not match
> 'end of string' symbol.
Yes, but remember that one of the rules for a partial match is this:
"However, at least one character in the subject must have been
inspected."
It will never give a partial match of zero characters, because you can
*always* find such a match at the end of the subject. I have expanded
the sentence about 'end of string' matches to say that at least one
character must have been inspected.
