Szerző: Zoltán Herczeg Dátum: Címzett: pcre-dev CC: pcre-dev Tárgy: Re: [pcre-dev] Return last bumpalong offset in partial_hard matching
> The returned offset is 4, and pcretest uses this value to show the exact > string that was partially matched. I can see that, having only that
> value plus the max lookbehind of 3 means that the application will
> compute the offset of the characters to save as 4-3 = 1, when in fact
> the optimum value is 4. Providing the bumpalong offset of 7 makes it
> possible to compute 7-3 = 4.
Ok, so this is basically for visualizing the result. I didn't think about that. But seems viable. An editor can highlight the possible result for example. Thanks for the explanation. By the way, what is the second value in the ovector?
