[pcre-dev] [Bug 1393] the opposite of a reference

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Author: Philip Hazel
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Subject: [pcre-dev] [Bug 1393] the opposite of a reference
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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1393




--- Comment #8 from Philip Hazel <ph10@???> 2013-10-10 16:15:18 ---
On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, ouadji wrote:

> so, this new feature soon in PCRE?
> ...it's just a small joke ;-)


Even though we have identified a suitable syntax, this is unlikely to
appear. Do you have a real-life example of where this might be useful? I
cannot myself think of a use for "match exactly the same number of
characters that group <n> matched, as long as at least one character is
different".

Philip


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