[pcre-dev] [Bug 1330] Lone closing square bracket in JavaScr…

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Author: Simon Hausmann
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Subject: [pcre-dev] [Bug 1330] Lone closing square bracket in JavaScript compatibility mode
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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330




--- Comment #2 from Simon Hausmann <simon.hausmann@???> 2013-01-11 08:24:58 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Hi Simon,
>
> welcome among us. I once discussed the JS compatibility in PCRE with Philip,
> and he said it this flag is never intended to be fully compatible with JS. I
> played with the JS regex tests + PCRE in WebKit before, and there were many
> parsing and behavioural differences. I fixed some, but in general it was too
> much work and there was no strong need to fix them. This is the current
> situation, so if you really need full JS compatiblity, I would use a JS engine.
> Unfortunately the name of this flag is quite misleading.
>


Thanks Zoltan for the quick reply. We were actually looking for a JS compatible
regex engine for QML, but it looks like PCRE is not a choice then,
unfortunately.

Feel free to close this bug :)


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