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Revision: 1404
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Author:   ph10
Date:     2013-11-19 15:36:57 +0000 (Tue, 19 Nov 2013)


Log Message:
-----------
Source tidies for 8.34-RC1.

Modified Paths:
--------------
    code/trunk/CMakeLists.txt
    code/trunk/ChangeLog
    code/trunk/NEWS
    code/trunk/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD
    code/trunk/README
    code/trunk/configure.ac
    code/trunk/doc/html/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD.txt
    code/trunk/doc/html/README.txt
    code/trunk/doc/html/index.html
    code/trunk/doc/html/pcre.html
    code/trunk/doc/html/pcre_compile.html
    code/trunk/doc/html/pcre_compile2.html
    code/trunk/doc/html/pcre_config.html
    code/trunk/doc/html/pcreapi.html
    code/trunk/doc/html/pcrecallout.html
    code/trunk/doc/html/pcrecompat.html
    code/trunk/doc/html/pcrelimits.html
    code/trunk/doc/html/pcrematching.html
    code/trunk/doc/html/pcrepartial.html
    code/trunk/doc/html/pcrepattern.html
    code/trunk/doc/html/pcreprecompile.html
    code/trunk/doc/html/pcresyntax.html
    code/trunk/doc/html/pcretest.html
    code/trunk/doc/pcre.txt
    code/trunk/doc/pcre_compile.3
    code/trunk/doc/pcre_compile2.3
    code/trunk/doc/pcre_config.3
    code/trunk/doc/pcreapi.3
    code/trunk/doc/pcrecompat.3
    code/trunk/doc/pcrepartial.3
    code/trunk/doc/pcrepattern.3
    code/trunk/doc/pcresyntax.3
    code/trunk/doc/pcretest.1
    code/trunk/doc/pcretest.txt
    code/trunk/pcre_compile.c
    code/trunk/pcre_dfa_exec.c
    code/trunk/pcre_exec.c
    code/trunk/pcre_fullinfo.c
    code/trunk/pcre_internal.h
    code/trunk/pcre_maketables.c
    code/trunk/pcre_printint.c
    code/trunk/pcre_study.c
    code/trunk/pcre_xclass.c
    code/trunk/pcregrep.c
    code/trunk/pcreposix.c
    code/trunk/pcretest.c
    code/trunk/perltest.pl
    code/trunk/testdata/testoutput13
    code/trunk/ucp.h


Modified: code/trunk/CMakeLists.txt
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/CMakeLists.txt    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/CMakeLists.txt    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@


 SET(PCRE_PARENS_NEST_LIMIT "250" CACHE STRING
     "Default nested parentheses limit. See PARENS_NEST_LIMIT in config.h.in for details.")
-     
+
 SET(PCRE_MATCH_LIMIT "10000000" CACHE STRING
     "Default limit on internal looping. See MATCH_LIMIT in config.h.in for details.")



Modified: code/trunk/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/ChangeLog    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/ChangeLog    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -1,29 +1,29 @@
 ChangeLog for PCRE
 ------------------


-Version 8.34 xx-xxxx-201x
---------------------------
+Version 8.34 19-November-2013
+-----------------------------

 1.  Add pcre[16|32]_jit_free_unused_memory to forcibly free unused JIT
     executable memory. Patch inspired by Carsten Klein.
-    
+
 2.  ./configure --enable-coverage defined SUPPORT_GCOV in config.h, although
     this macro is never tested and has no effect, because the work to support
-    coverage involves only compiling and linking options and special targets in 
+    coverage involves only compiling and linking options and special targets in
     the Makefile. The comment in config.h implied that defining the macro would
     enable coverage support, which is totally false. There was also support for
     setting this macro in the CMake files (my fault, I just copied it from
     configure). SUPPORT_GCOV has now been removed.
-    
+
 3.  Make a small performance improvement in strlen16() and strlen32() in
     pcretest.
-    
+
 4.  Change 36 for 8.33 left some unreachable statements in pcre_exec.c,
     detected by the Solaris compiler (gcc doesn't seem to be able to diagnose
     these cases). There was also one in pcretest.c.
-    
-5.  Cleaned up a "may be uninitialized" compiler warning in pcre_exec.c. 


+5.  Cleaned up a "may be uninitialized" compiler warning in pcre_exec.c.
+
 6.  In UTF mode, the code for checking whether a group could match an empty
     string (which is used for indefinitely repeated groups to allow for
     breaking an infinite loop) was broken when the group contained a repeated
@@ -31,161 +31,161 @@
     data item and had a minimum repetition of zero (for example, [^\x{100}]* in
     UTF-8 mode). The effect was undefined: the group might or might not be
     deemed as matching an empty string, or the program might have crashed.
-    
+
 7.  The code for checking whether a group could match an empty string was not
     recognizing that \h, \H, \v, \V, and \R must match a character.
-    
+
 8.  Implemented PCRE_INFO_MATCH_EMPTY, which yields 1 if the pattern can match
-    an empty string. If it can, pcretest shows this in its information output. 
-    
+    an empty string. If it can, pcretest shows this in its information output.
+
 9.  Fixed two related bugs that applied to Unicode extended grapheme clusters
-    that were repeated with a maximizing qualifier (e.g. \X* or \X{2,5}) when 
+    that were repeated with a maximizing qualifier (e.g. \X* or \X{2,5}) when
     matched by pcre_exec() without using JIT:
-    
-    (a) If the rest of the pattern did not match after a maximal run of 
-        grapheme clusters, the code for backing up to try with fewer of them 
+
+    (a) If the rest of the pattern did not match after a maximal run of
+        grapheme clusters, the code for backing up to try with fewer of them
         did not always back up over a full grapheme when characters that do not
         have the modifier quality were involved, e.g. Hangul syllables.
-        
-    (b) If the match point in a subject started with modifier character, and 
-        there was no match, the code could incorrectly back up beyond the match 
-        point, and potentially beyond the first character in the subject, 
+
+    (b) If the match point in a subject started with modifier character, and
+        there was no match, the code could incorrectly back up beyond the match
+        point, and potentially beyond the first character in the subject,
         leading to a segfault or an incorrect match result.
-        
-10. A conditional group with an assertion condition could lead to PCRE 
-    recording an incorrect first data item for a match if no other first data 
+
+10. A conditional group with an assertion condition could lead to PCRE
+    recording an incorrect first data item for a match if no other first data
     item was recorded. For example, the pattern (?(?=ab)ab) recorded "a" as a
-    first data item, and therefore matched "ca" after "c" instead of at the 
+    first data item, and therefore matched "ca" after "c" instead of at the
     start.
-    
-11. Change 40 for 8.33 (allowing pcregrep to find empty strings) showed up a 
+
+11. Change 40 for 8.33 (allowing pcregrep to find empty strings) showed up a
     bug that caused the command "echo a | ./pcregrep -M '|a'" to loop.
-    
+
 12. The source of pcregrep now includes z/OS-specific code so that it can be
     compiled for z/OS as part of the special z/OS distribution.
-    
-13. Added the -T and -TM options to pcretest. 


+13. Added the -T and -TM options to pcretest.
+
 14. The code in pcre_compile.c for creating the table of named capturing groups
-    has been refactored. Instead of creating the table dynamically during the 
-    actual compiling pass, the information is remembered during the pre-compile 
-    pass (on the stack unless there are more than 20 named groups, in which 
-    case malloc() is used) and the whole table is created before the actual 
+    has been refactored. Instead of creating the table dynamically during the
+    actual compiling pass, the information is remembered during the pre-compile
+    pass (on the stack unless there are more than 20 named groups, in which
+    case malloc() is used) and the whole table is created before the actual
     compile happens. This has simplified the code (it is now nearly 150 lines
-    shorter) and prepared the way for better handling of references to groups 
+    shorter) and prepared the way for better handling of references to groups
     with duplicate names.
-    
-15. A back reference to a named subpattern when there is more than one of the 
-    same name now checks them in the order in which they appear in the pattern. 
-    The first one that is set is used for the reference. Previously only the 
-    first one was inspected. This change makes PCRE more compatible with Perl. 


+15. A back reference to a named subpattern when there is more than one of the
+    same name now checks them in the order in which they appear in the pattern.
+    The first one that is set is used for the reference. Previously only the
+    first one was inspected. This change makes PCRE more compatible with Perl.
+
 16. Unicode character properties were updated from Unicode 6.3.0.


-17. The compile-time code for auto-possessification has been refactored, based 
-    on a patch by Zoltan Herczeg. It now happens after instead of during 
-    compilation. The code is cleaner, and more cases are handled. The option 
-    PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS is added for testing purposes, and the -O and /O 
-    options in pcretest are provided to set it. It can also be set by 
+17. The compile-time code for auto-possessification has been refactored, based
+    on a patch by Zoltan Herczeg. It now happens after instead of during
+    compilation. The code is cleaner, and more cases are handled. The option
+    PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS is added for testing purposes, and the -O and /O
+    options in pcretest are provided to set it. It can also be set by
     (*NO_AUTO_POSSESS) at the start of a pattern.
-    
+
 18. The character VT has been added to the set of characters that match \s and
-    are generally treated as white space, following this same change in Perl 
-    5.18. There is now no difference between "Perl space" and "POSIX space". 
-    
-19. The code for checking named groups as conditions, either for being set or 
+    are generally treated as white space, following this same change in Perl
+    5.18. There is now no difference between "Perl space" and "POSIX space".
+
+19. The code for checking named groups as conditions, either for being set or
     for being recursed, has been refactored (this is related to 14 and 15
     above). Processing unduplicated named groups should now be as fast at
     numerical groups, and processing duplicated groups should be faster than
     before.
-    
+
 20. Two patches to the CMake build system, by Alexander Barkov:


-      (1) Replace the "source" command by "." in CMakeLists.txt because 
+      (1) Replace the "source" command by "." in CMakeLists.txt because
           "source" is a bash-ism.
-          
-      (2) Add missing HAVE_STDINT_H and HAVE_INTTYPES_H to config-cmake.h.in; 
+
+      (2) Add missing HAVE_STDINT_H and HAVE_INTTYPES_H to config-cmake.h.in;
           without these the CMake build does not work on Solaris.
-          
-21. Perl has changed its handling of \8 and \9. If there is no previously 
-    encountered capturing group of those numbers, they are treated as the 
-    literal characters 8 and 9 instead of a binary zero followed by the 
+
+21. Perl has changed its handling of \8 and \9. If there is no previously
+    encountered capturing group of those numbers, they are treated as the
+    literal characters 8 and 9 instead of a binary zero followed by the
     literals. PCRE now does the same.
-    
+
 22. Following Perl, added \o{} to specify codepoints in octal, making it
-    possible to specify values greater than 0777 and also making them 
-    unambiguous. 
-    
-23. Perl now gives an error for missing closing braces after \x{... instead of 
+    possible to specify values greater than 0777 and also making them
+    unambiguous.
+
+23. Perl now gives an error for missing closing braces after \x{... instead of
     treating the string as literal. PCRE now does the same.
-    
-24. RunTest used to grumble if an inappropriate test was selected explicitly, 
-    but just skip it when running all tests. This make it awkward to run ranges 
-    of tests when one of them was inappropriate. Now it just skips any 
-    inappropriate tests, as it always did when running all tests.  
-    
-25. If PCRE_AUTO_CALLOUT and PCRE_UCP were set for a pattern that contained 
-    character types such as \d or \w, too many callouts were inserted, and the 
-    data that they returned was rubbish.  
-    
+
+24. RunTest used to grumble if an inappropriate test was selected explicitly,
+    but just skip it when running all tests. This make it awkward to run ranges
+    of tests when one of them was inappropriate. Now it just skips any
+    inappropriate tests, as it always did when running all tests.
+
+25. If PCRE_AUTO_CALLOUT and PCRE_UCP were set for a pattern that contained
+    character types such as \d or \w, too many callouts were inserted, and the
+    data that they returned was rubbish.
+
 26. In UCP mode, \s was not matching two of the characters that Perl matches,
-    namely NEL (U+0085) and MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR (U+180E), though they 
-    were matched by \h. The code has now been refactored so that the lists of 
-    the horizontal and vertical whitespace characters used for \h and \v (which 
-    are defined only in one place) are now also used for \s.  
+    namely NEL (U+0085) and MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR (U+180E), though they
+    were matched by \h. The code has now been refactored so that the lists of
+    the horizontal and vertical whitespace characters used for \h and \v (which
+    are defined only in one place) are now also used for \s.


 27. Add JIT support for the 64 bit TileGX architecture.
     Patch by Jiong Wang (Tilera Corporation).
-    
+
 28. Possessive quantifiers for classes (both explicit and automatically
     generated) now use special opcodes instead of wrapping in ONCE brackets.
-    
-29. Whereas an item such as A{4}+ ignored the possessivenes of the quantifier 
-    (because it's meaningless), this was not happening when PCRE_CASELESS was 
-    set. Not wrong, but inefficient. 
-    
-30. Updated perltest.pl to add /u (force Unicode mode) when /W (use Unicode 
-    properties for \w, \d, etc) is present in a test regex. Otherwise if the 
-    test contains no characters greater than 255, Perl doesn't realise it 
-    should be using Unicode semantics. 
-    
+
+29. Whereas an item such as A{4}+ ignored the possessivenes of the quantifier
+    (because it's meaningless), this was not happening when PCRE_CASELESS was
+    set. Not wrong, but inefficient.
+
+30. Updated perltest.pl to add /u (force Unicode mode) when /W (use Unicode
+    properties for \w, \d, etc) is present in a test regex. Otherwise if the
+    test contains no characters greater than 255, Perl doesn't realise it
+    should be using Unicode semantics.
+
 31. Upgraded the handling of the POSIX classes [:graph:], [:print:], and
-    [:punct:] when PCRE_UCP is set so as to include the same characters as Perl 
-    does in Unicode mode. 
-    
-32. Added the "forbid" facility to pcretest so that putting tests into the 
+    [:punct:] when PCRE_UCP is set so as to include the same characters as Perl
+    does in Unicode mode.
+
+32. Added the "forbid" facility to pcretest so that putting tests into the
     wrong test files can sometimes be quickly detected.
-    
-33. There is now a limit (default 250) on the depth of nesting of parentheses. 
-    This limit is imposed to control the amount of system stack used at compile 
-    time. It can be changed at build time by --with-parens-nest-limit=xxx or 
-    the equivalent in CMake. 
-    
-34. Character classes such as [A-\d] or [a-[:digit:]] now cause compile-time 
-    errors. Perl warns for these when in warning mode, but PCRE has no facility 
-    for giving warnings. 
-    
-35. Change 34 for 8.13 allowed quantifiers on assertions, because Perl does. 
-    However, this was not working for (?!) because it is optimized to (*FAIL), 
-    for which PCRE does not allow quantifiers. The optimization is now disabled 
-    when a quantifier follows (?!). I can't see any use for this, but it makes 
-    things uniform. 
-    
+
+33. There is now a limit (default 250) on the depth of nesting of parentheses.
+    This limit is imposed to control the amount of system stack used at compile
+    time. It can be changed at build time by --with-parens-nest-limit=xxx or
+    the equivalent in CMake.
+
+34. Character classes such as [A-\d] or [a-[:digit:]] now cause compile-time
+    errors. Perl warns for these when in warning mode, but PCRE has no facility
+    for giving warnings.
+
+35. Change 34 for 8.13 allowed quantifiers on assertions, because Perl does.
+    However, this was not working for (?!) because it is optimized to (*FAIL),
+    for which PCRE does not allow quantifiers. The optimization is now disabled
+    when a quantifier follows (?!). I can't see any use for this, but it makes
+    things uniform.
+
 36. Perl no longer allows group names to start with digits, so I have made this
-    change also in PCRE. It simplifies the code a bit. 
-    
-37. In extended mode, Perl ignores spaces before a + that indicates a 
-    possessive quantifier. PCRE allowed a space before the quantifier, but not 
+    change also in PCRE. It simplifies the code a bit.
+
+37. In extended mode, Perl ignores spaces before a + that indicates a
+    possessive quantifier. PCRE allowed a space before the quantifier, but not
     before the possessive +. It now does.
-    
+
 38. The use of \K (reset reported match start) within a repeated possessive
     group such as (a\Kb)*+ was not working.
-    
-40. Document that the same character tables must be used at compile time and 
-    run time, and that the facility to pass tables to pcre_exec() and 
-    pcre_dfa_exec() is for use only with saved/restored patterns. 


+40. Document that the same character tables must be used at compile time and
+    run time, and that the facility to pass tables to pcre_exec() and
+    pcre_dfa_exec() is for use only with saved/restored patterns.


+
Version 8.33 28-May-2013
------------------------


Modified: code/trunk/NEWS
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/NEWS    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/NEWS    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -1,6 +1,50 @@
 News about PCRE releases
 ------------------------


+Release 8.34 19-November-2013
+-----------------------------
+
+As well as fixing the inevitable bugs, performance has been improved by
+refactoring and extending the amount of "auto-possessification" that PCRE does.
+Other notable changes:
+
+. Implemented PCRE_INFO_MATCH_EMPTY, which yields 1 if the pattern can match
+ an empty string. If it can, pcretest shows this in its information output.
+
+. A back reference to a named subpattern when there is more than one of the
+ same name now checks them in the order in which they appear in the pattern.
+ The first one that is set is used for the reference. Previously only the
+ first one was inspected. This change makes PCRE more compatible with Perl.
+
+. Unicode character properties were updated from Unicode 6.3.0.
+
+. The character VT has been added to the set of characters that match \s and
+ are generally treated as white space, following this same change in Perl
+ 5.18. There is now no difference between "Perl space" and "POSIX space".
+
+. Perl has changed its handling of \8 and \9. If there is no previously
+ encountered capturing group of those numbers, they are treated as the
+ literal characters 8 and 9 instead of a binary zero followed by the
+ literals. PCRE now does the same.
+
+. Following Perl, added \o{} to specify codepoints in octal, making it
+ possible to specify values greater than 0777 and also making them
+ unambiguous.
+
+. In UCP mode, \s was not matching two of the characters that Perl matches,
+ namely NEL (U+0085) and MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR (U+180E), though they
+ were matched by \h.
+
+. Add JIT support for the 64 bit TileGX architecture.
+
+. Upgraded the handling of the POSIX classes [:graph:], [:print:], and
+ [:punct:] when PCRE_UCP is set so as to include the same characters as Perl
+ does in Unicode mode.
+
+. Perl no longer allows group names to start with digits, so I have made this
+ change also in PCRE.
+
+
Release 8.33 28-May-2013
--------------------------


Modified: code/trunk/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -171,8 +171,8 @@
        pcre16_version.c
        pcre16_xclass.c


- (8) If you want to build a 16-bit library (as well as, or instead of the 8-bit
-     or 32-bit libraries) repeat steps 5-6 with the following files:
+ (8) If you want to build a 32-bit library (as well as, or instead of the 8-bit
+     or 16-bit libraries) repeat steps 5-6 with the following files:


        pcre32_byte_order.c
        pcre32_chartables.c


Modified: code/trunk/README
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/README    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/README    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@
   ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-xxx.zip


There is a mailing list for discussion about the development of PCRE at
-pcre-dev@???. You can access the archives and subscribe or manage your
+pcre-dev@???. You can access the archives and subscribe or manage your
subscription here:

- https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
+ https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev

Please read the NEWS file if you are upgrading from a previous release.
The contents of this README file are:
@@ -268,15 +268,15 @@
--with-posix-malloc-threshold=20

on the "configure" command.
-
-. PCRE has a counter that limits the depth of nesting of parentheses in a
- pattern. This limits the amount of system stack that a pattern uses when it
- is compiled. The default is 250, but you can change it by setting, for
+
+. PCRE has a counter that limits the depth of nesting of parentheses in a
+ pattern. This limits the amount of system stack that a pattern uses when it
+ is compiled. The default is 250, but you can change it by setting, for
example,
-
- --with-parens-nest-limit=500

-. PCRE has a counter that can be set to limit the amount of resources it uses
+ --with-parens-nest-limit=500
+
+. PCRE has a counter that can be set to limit the amount of resources it uses
when matching a pattern. If the limit is exceeded during a match, the match
fails. The default is ten million. You can change the default by setting, for
example,
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@
report is generated by running "make coverage". If ccache is installed on
your system, it must be disabled when building PCRE for coverage reporting.
You can do this by setting the environment variable CCACHE_DISABLE=1 before
- running "make" to build PCRE. There is more information about coverage
+ running "make" to build PCRE. There is more information about coverage
reporting in the "pcrebuild" documentation.

. The pcregrep program currently supports only 8-bit data files, and so

Modified: code/trunk/configure.ac
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/configure.ac    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/configure.ac    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -10,16 +10,16 @@


m4_define(pcre_major, [8])
m4_define(pcre_minor, [34])
-m4_define(pcre_prerelease, [-RC])
-m4_define(pcre_date, [2013-06-14])
+m4_define(pcre_prerelease, [-RC1])
+m4_define(pcre_date, [2013-11-19])

# NOTE: The CMakeLists.txt file searches for the above variables in the first
# 50 lines of this file. Please update that if the variables above are moved.

# Libtool shared library interface versions (current:revision:age)
-m4_define(libpcre_version, [3:1:2])
-m4_define(libpcre16_version, [2:1:2])
-m4_define(libpcre32_version, [0:1:0])
+m4_define(libpcre_version, [3:2:2])
+m4_define(libpcre16_version, [2:2:2])
+m4_define(libpcre32_version, [0:2:0])
m4_define(libpcreposix_version, [0:2:0])
m4_define(libpcrecpp_version, [0:0:0])

@@ -274,12 +274,12 @@
             AS_HELP_STRING([--with-link-size=N],
                            [internal link size (2, 3, or 4 allowed; default=2)]),
             , with_link_size=2)
-            
+
 # Handle --with-parens-nest-limit=N
 AC_ARG_WITH(parens-nest-limit,
             AS_HELP_STRING([--with-parens-nest-limit=N],
                            [nested parentheses limit (default=250)]),
-            , with_parens_nest_limit=250)                  
+            , with_parens_nest_limit=250)


# Handle --with-match-limit=N
AC_ARG_WITH(match-limit,
@@ -789,11 +789,11 @@
small, the wrapper function uses space on the stack, because this is
faster than using malloc() for each call. The threshold above which
the stack is no longer used is defined by POSIX_MALLOC_THRESHOLD.])
-
+
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([PARENS_NEST_LIMIT], [$with_parens_nest_limit], [
- The value of PARENS_NEST_LIMIT specifies the maximum depth of nested
- parentheses (of any kind) in a pattern. This limits the amount of system
- stack that is used while compiling a pattern.])
+ The value of PARENS_NEST_LIMIT specifies the maximum depth of nested
+ parentheses (of any kind) in a pattern. This limits the amount of system
+ stack that is used while compiling a pattern.])

 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([MATCH_LIMIT], [$with_match_limit], [
   The value of MATCH_LIMIT determines the default number of times the
@@ -1082,7 +1082,7 @@
     Use stack recursion ............. : ${enable_stack_for_recursion}
     POSIX mem threshold ............. : ${with_posix_malloc_threshold}
     Internal link size .............. : ${with_link_size}
-    Nested parentheses limit ........ : ${with_parens_nest_limit} 
+    Nested parentheses limit ........ : ${with_parens_nest_limit}
     Match limit ..................... : ${with_match_limit}
     Match limit recursion ........... : ${with_match_limit_recursion}
     Build shared libs ............... : ${enable_shared}


Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD.txt
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD.txt    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD.txt    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -171,8 +171,8 @@
        pcre16_version.c
        pcre16_xclass.c


- (8) If you want to build a 16-bit library (as well as, or instead of the 8-bit
-     or 32-bit libraries) repeat steps 5-6 with the following files:
+ (8) If you want to build a 32-bit library (as well as, or instead of the 8-bit
+     or 16-bit libraries) repeat steps 5-6 with the following files:


        pcre32_byte_order.c
        pcre32_chartables.c


Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/README.txt
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/README.txt    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/README.txt    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@
   ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-xxx.zip


There is a mailing list for discussion about the development of PCRE at
+pcre-dev@???. You can access the archives and subscribe or manage your
+subscription here:

- pcre-dev@???
+ https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev

Please read the NEWS file if you are upgrading from a previous release.
The contents of this README file are:
@@ -112,7 +114,12 @@
Windows (I myself do not use Windows). Nowadays there is more Windows support
in the standard distribution, so these contibutions have been archived.

+A PCRE user maintains downloadable Windows binaries of the pcregrep and
+pcretest programs here:

+ http://www.rexegg.com/pcregrep-pcretest.html
+
+
Building PCRE on non-Unix-like systems
--------------------------------------

@@ -262,10 +269,18 @@

on the "configure" command.

-. PCRE has a counter that can be set to limit the amount of resources it uses.
- If the limit is exceeded during a match, the match fails. The default is ten
- million. You can change the default by setting, for example,
+. PCRE has a counter that limits the depth of nesting of parentheses in a
+ pattern. This limits the amount of system stack that a pattern uses when it
+ is compiled. The default is 250, but you can change it by setting, for
+ example,

+ --with-parens-nest-limit=500
+
+. PCRE has a counter that can be set to limit the amount of resources it uses
+ when matching a pattern. If the limit is exceeded during a match, the match
+ fails. The default is ten million. You can change the default by setting, for
+ example,
+
--with-match-limit=500000

on the "configure" command. This is just the default; individual calls to
@@ -344,7 +359,8 @@
report is generated by running "make coverage". If ccache is installed on
your system, it must be disabled when building PCRE for coverage reporting.
You can do this by setting the environment variable CCACHE_DISABLE=1 before
- running "make" to build PCRE.
+ running "make" to build PCRE. There is more information about coverage
+ reporting in the "pcrebuild" documentation.

. The pcregrep program currently supports only 8-bit data files, and so
requires the 8-bit PCRE library. It is possible to compile pcregrep to use
@@ -971,4 +987,4 @@
Philip Hazel
Email local part: ph10
Email domain: cam.ac.uk
-Last updated: 28 April 2013
+Last updated: 05 November 2013

Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/index.html
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/index.html    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/index.html    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 <html>
-<!-- This is a manually maintained file that is the root of the HTML version of 
-     the PCRE documentation. When the HTML documents are built from the man 
-     page versions, the entire doc/html directory is emptied, this file is then 
-     copied into doc/html/index.html, and the remaining files therein are 
+<!-- This is a manually maintained file that is the root of the HTML version of
+     the PCRE documentation. When the HTML documents are built from the man
+     page versions, the entire doc/html directory is emptied, this file is then
+     copied into doc/html/index.html, and the remaining files therein are
      created by the 132html script.
--->      
+-->
 <head>
 <title>PCRE specification</title>
 </head>
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
 functions.
 </p>


-<table>    
+<table>


 <tr><td><a href="pcre_assign_jit_stack.html">pcre_assign_jit_stack</a></td>
     <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;Assign stack for JIT matching</td></tr>
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@


 <tr><td><a href="pcre_maketables.html">pcre_maketables</a></td>
     <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;Build character tables in current locale</td></tr>
-    
+
 <tr><td><a href="pcre_pattern_to_host_byte_order.html">pcre_pattern_to_host_byte_order</a></td>
     <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;Convert compiled pattern to host byte order if necessary</td></tr>



Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/pcre.html
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/pcre.html    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/pcre.html    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 including support for UTF-8/16/32 encoded strings and Unicode general category
 properties. However, UTF-8/16/32 and Unicode support has to be explicitly
 enabled; it is not the default. The Unicode tables correspond to Unicode
-release 6.2.0.
+release 6.3.0.
 </P>
 <P>
 In addition to the Perl-compatible matching function, PCRE contains an


Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/pcre_compile.html
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/pcre_compile.html    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/pcre_compile.html    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
   PCRE_FIRSTLINE          Force matching to be before newline
   PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT  JavaScript compatibility
   PCRE_MULTILINE          ^ and $ match newlines within data
+  PCRE_NEVER_UTF          Lock out UTF, e.g. via (*UTF)
   PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY        Recognize any Unicode newline sequence
   PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF    Recognize CR, LF, and CRLF as newline
                             sequences
@@ -73,6 +74,8 @@
   PCRE_NEWLINE_LF         Set LF as the newline sequence
   PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE    Disable numbered capturing paren-
                             theses (named ones available)
+  PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS    Disable auto-possessification
+  PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE  Disable match-time start optimizations
   PCRE_NO_UTF16_CHECK     Do not check the pattern for UTF-16
                             validity (only relevant if
                             PCRE_UTF16 is set)


Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/pcre_compile2.html
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/pcre_compile2.html    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/pcre_compile2.html    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
   PCRE_FIRSTLINE          Force matching to be before newline
   PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT  JavaScript compatibility
   PCRE_MULTILINE          ^ and $ match newlines within data
+  PCRE_NEVER_UTF          Lock out UTF, e.g. via (*UTF)
   PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY        Recognize any Unicode newline sequence
   PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF    Recognize CR, LF, and CRLF as newline
                             sequences
@@ -77,6 +78,8 @@
   PCRE_NEWLINE_LF         Set LF as the newline sequence
   PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE    Disable numbered capturing paren-
                             theses (named ones available)
+  PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS    Disable auto-possessification
+  PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE  Disable match-time start optimizations
   PCRE_NO_UTF16_CHECK     Do not check the pattern for UTF-16
                             validity (only relevant if
                             PCRE_UTF16 is set)


Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/pcre_config.html
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/pcre_config.html    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/pcre_config.html    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
                               target architecture for the JIT compiler,
                               or NULL if there is no JIT support
   PCRE_CONFIG_LINK_SIZE     Internal link size: 2, 3, or 4
+  PCRE_CONFIG_PARENS_LIMIT  Parentheses nesting limit
   PCRE_CONFIG_MATCH_LIMIT   Internal resource limit
   PCRE_CONFIG_MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION
                             Internal recursion depth limit


Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/pcreapi.html
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/pcreapi.html    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/pcreapi.html    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -484,6 +484,13 @@
 <a href="pcreposix.html"><b>pcreposix</b></a>
 documentation.
 <pre>
+  PCRE_CONFIG_PARENS_LIMIT
+</pre>
+The output is a long integer that gives the maximum depth of nesting of
+parentheses (of any kind) in a pattern. This limit is imposed to cap the amount
+of system stack used when a pattern is compiled. It is specified when PCRE is
+built; the default is 250.
+<pre>
   PCRE_CONFIG_MATCH_LIMIT
 </pre>
 The output is a long integer that gives the default limit for the number of
@@ -582,8 +589,9 @@
 character tables that are built when PCRE is compiled, using the default C
 locale. Otherwise, <i>tableptr</i> must be an address that is the result of a
 call to <b>pcre_maketables()</b>. This value is stored with the compiled
-pattern, and used again by <b>pcre_exec()</b>, unless another table pointer is
-passed to it. For more discussion, see the section on locale support below.
+pattern, and used again by <b>pcre_exec()</b> and <b>pcre_dfa_exec()</b> when the
+pattern is matched. For more discussion, see the section on locale support
+below.
 </P>
 <P>
 This code fragment shows a typical straightforward call to <b>pcre_compile()</b>:
@@ -668,14 +676,26 @@
 <pre>
   PCRE_EXTENDED
 </pre>
-If this bit is set, white space data characters in the pattern are totally
-ignored except when escaped or inside a character class. White space does not
-include the VT character (code 11). In addition, characters between an
-unescaped # outside a character class and the next newline, inclusive, are also
-ignored. This is equivalent to Perl's /x option, and it can be changed within a
-pattern by a (?x) option setting.
+If this bit is set, most white space characters in the pattern are totally
+ignored except when escaped or inside a character class. However, white space
+is not allowed within sequences such as (?&#62; that introduce various
+parenthesized subpatterns, nor within a numerical quantifier such as {1,3}.
+However, ignorable white space is permitted between an item and a following
+quantifier and between a quantifier and a following + that indicates
+possessiveness.
 </P>
 <P>
+White space did not used to include the VT character (code 11), because Perl
+did not treat this character as white space. However, Perl changed at release
+5.18, so PCRE followed at release 8.34, and VT is now treated as white space.
+</P>
+<P>
+PCRE_EXTENDED also causes characters between an unescaped # outside a character
+class and the next newline, inclusive, to be ignored. PCRE_EXTENDED is
+equivalent to Perl's /x option, and it can be changed within a pattern by a
+(?x) option setting.
+</P>
+<P>
 Which characters are interpreted as newlines is controlled by the options
 passed to <b>pcre_compile()</b> or by a special sequence at the start of the
 pattern, as described in the section entitled
@@ -827,6 +847,15 @@
 they acquire numbers in the usual way). There is no equivalent of this option
 in Perl.
 <pre>
+  PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS
+</pre>
+If this option is set, it disables "auto-possessification". This is an
+optimization that, for example, turns a+b into a++b in order to avoid
+backtracks into a+ that can never be successful. However, if callouts are in
+use, auto-possessification means that some of them are never taken. You can set
+this option if you want the matching functions to do a full unoptimized search
+and run all the callouts, but it is mainly provided for testing purposes.
+<pre>
   PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE
 </pre>
 This is an option that acts at matching time; that is, it is really an option
@@ -877,10 +906,10 @@
 error. If you already know that your pattern is valid, and you want to skip
 this check for performance reasons, you can set the PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK option.
 When it is set, the effect of passing an invalid UTF-8 string as a pattern is
-undefined. It may cause your program to crash. Note that this option can also
-be passed to <b>pcre_exec()</b> and <b>pcre_dfa_exec()</b>, to suppress the
-validity checking of subject strings only. If the same string is being matched
-many times, the option can be safely set for the second and subsequent
+undefined. It may cause your program to crash or loop. Note that this option
+can also be passed to <b>pcre_exec()</b> and <b>pcre_dfa_exec()</b>, to suppress
+the validity checking of subject strings only. If the same string is being
+matched many times, the option can be safely set for the second and subsequent
 matchings to improve performance.
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC12" href="#TOC1">COMPILATION ERROR CODES</a><br>
@@ -925,7 +954,7 @@
   31  POSIX collating elements are not supported
   32  this version of PCRE is compiled without UTF support
   33  [this code is not in use]
-  34  character value in \x{...} sequence is too large
+  34  character value in \x{} or \o{} is too large
   35  invalid condition (?(0)
   36  \C not allowed in lookbehind assertion
   37  PCRE does not support \L, \l, \N{name}, \U, or \u
@@ -973,6 +1002,12 @@
   75  name is too long in (*MARK), (*PRUNE), (*SKIP), or (*THEN)
   76  character value in \u.... sequence is too large
   77  invalid UTF-32 string (specifically UTF-32)
+  78  setting UTF is disabled by the application
+  79  non-hex character in \x{} (closing brace missing?)
+  80  non-octal character in \o{} (closing brace missing?)
+  81  missing opening brace after \o
+  82  parentheses are too deeply nested
+  83  invalid range in character class
 </pre>
 The numbers 32 and 10000 in errors 48 and 49 are defaults; different values may
 be used if the limits were changed when PCRE was built.
@@ -1103,17 +1138,20 @@
 <P>
 PCRE handles caseless matching, and determines whether characters are letters,
 digits, or whatever, by reference to a set of tables, indexed by character
-value. When running in UTF-8 mode, this applies only to characters
-with codes less than 128. By default, higher-valued codes never match escapes
-such as \w or \d, but they can be tested with \p if PCRE is built with
-Unicode character property support. Alternatively, the PCRE_UCP option can be
-set at compile time; this causes \w and friends to use Unicode property
-support instead of built-in tables. The use of locales with Unicode is
-discouraged. If you are handling characters with codes greater than 128, you
-should either use UTF-8 and Unicode, or use locales, but not try to mix the
-two.
+code point. When running in UTF-8 mode, or in the 16- or 32-bit libraries, this
+applies only to characters with code points less than 256. By default,
+higher-valued code points never match escapes such as \w or \d. However, if
+PCRE is built with Unicode property support, all characters can be tested with
+\p and \P, or, alternatively, the PCRE_UCP option can be set when a pattern
+is compiled; this causes \w and friends to use Unicode property support
+instead of the built-in tables.
 </P>
 <P>
+The use of locales with Unicode is discouraged. If you are handling characters
+with code points greater than 128, you should either use Unicode support, or
+use locales, but not try to mix the two.
+</P>
+<P>
 PCRE contains an internal set of tables that are used when the final argument
 of <b>pcre_compile()</b> is NULL. These are sufficient for many applications.
 Normally, the internal tables recognize only ASCII characters. However, when
@@ -1129,10 +1167,10 @@
 <P>
 External tables are built by calling the <b>pcre_maketables()</b> function,
 which has no arguments, in the relevant locale. The result can then be passed
-to <b>pcre_compile()</b> or <b>pcre_exec()</b> as often as necessary. For
-example, to build and use tables that are appropriate for the French locale
-(where accented characters with values greater than 128 are treated as letters),
-the following code could be used:
+to <b>pcre_compile()</b> as often as necessary. For example, to build and use
+tables that are appropriate for the French locale (where accented characters
+with values greater than 128 are treated as letters), the following code could
+be used:
 <pre>
   setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "fr_FR");
   tables = pcre_maketables();
@@ -1150,16 +1188,20 @@
 <P>
 The pointer that is passed to <b>pcre_compile()</b> is saved with the compiled
 pattern, and the same tables are used via this pointer by <b>pcre_study()</b>
-and normally also by <b>pcre_exec()</b>. Thus, by default, for any single
+and also by <b>pcre_exec()</b> and <b>pcre_dfa_exec()</b>. Thus, for any single
 pattern, compilation, studying and matching all happen in the same locale, but
-different patterns can be compiled in different locales.
+different patterns can be processed in different locales.
 </P>
 <P>
 It is possible to pass a table pointer or NULL (indicating the use of the
-internal tables) to <b>pcre_exec()</b>. Although not intended for this purpose,
-this facility could be used to match a pattern in a different locale from the
-one in which it was compiled. Passing table pointers at run time is discussed
-below in the section on matching a pattern.
+internal tables) to <b>pcre_exec()</b> or <b>pcre_dfa_exec()</b> (see the
+discussion below in the section on matching a pattern). This facility is
+provided for use with pre-compiled patterns that have been saved and reloaded.
+Character tables are not saved with patterns, so if a non-standard table was
+used at compile time, it must be provided again when the reloaded pattern is
+matched. Attempting to use this facility to match a pattern in a different
+locale from the one in which it was compiled is likely to lead to anomalous
+(usually incorrect) results.
 <a name="infoaboutpattern"></a></P>
 <br><a name="SEC15" href="#TOC1">INFORMATION ABOUT A PATTERN</a><br>
 <P>
@@ -1305,10 +1347,15 @@
 </P>
 <P>
 Since for the 32-bit library using the non-UTF-32 mode, this function is unable
-to return the full 32-bit range of the character, this value is deprecated;
+to return the full 32-bit range of characters, this value is deprecated;
 instead the PCRE_INFO_REQUIREDCHARFLAGS and PCRE_INFO_REQUIREDCHAR values should
 be used.
 <pre>
+  PCRE_INFO_MATCH_EMPTY
+</pre>
+Return 1 if the pattern can match an empty string, otherwise 0. The fourth
+argument should point to an <b>int</b> variable.
+<pre>
   PCRE_INFO_MATCHLIMIT
 </pre>
 If the pattern set a match limit by including an item of the form
@@ -1366,16 +1413,18 @@
 name, zero terminated.
 </P>
 <P>
-The names are in alphabetical order. Duplicate names may appear if (?| is used
-to create multiple groups with the same number, as described in the
+The names are in alphabetical order. If (?| is used to create multiple groups
+with the same number, as described in the
 <a href="pcrepattern.html#dupsubpatternnumber">section on duplicate subpattern numbers</a>
 in the
 <a href="pcrepattern.html"><b>pcrepattern</b></a>
-page. Duplicate names for subpatterns with different numbers are permitted only
-if PCRE_DUPNAMES is set. In all cases of duplicate names, they appear in the
-table in the order in which they were found in the pattern. In the absence of
-(?| this is the order of increasing number; when (?| is used this is not
-necessarily the case because later subpatterns may have lower numbers.
+page, the groups may be given the same name, but there is only one entry in the
+table. Different names for groups of the same number are not permitted.
+Duplicate names for subpatterns with different numbers are permitted,
+but only if PCRE_DUPNAMES is set. They appear in the table in the order in
+which they were found in the pattern. In the absence of (?| this is the order
+of increasing number; when (?| is used this is not necessarily the case because
+later subpatterns may have lower numbers.
 </P>
 <P>
 As a simple example of the name/number table, consider the following pattern
@@ -1489,30 +1538,14 @@
 <pre>
   PCRE_INFO_FIRSTCHARACTER
 </pre>
-Return the fixed first character value, if PCRE_INFO_FIRSTCHARACTERFLAGS
-returned 1; otherwise returns 0. The fourth argument should point to an
-<b>uint_t</b> variable.
+Return the fixed first character value in the situation where
+PCRE_INFO_FIRSTCHARACTERFLAGS returns 1; otherwise return 0. The fourth
+argument should point to an <b>uint_t</b> variable.
 </P>
 <P>
 In the 8-bit library, the value is always less than 256. In the 16-bit library
 the value can be up to 0xffff. In the 32-bit library in UTF-32 mode the value
 can be up to 0x10ffff, and up to 0xffffffff when not using UTF-32 mode.
-</P>
-<P>
-If there is no fixed first value, and if either
-<br>
-<br>
-(a) the pattern was compiled with the PCRE_MULTILINE option, and every branch
-starts with "^", or
-<br>
-<br>
-(b) every branch of the pattern starts with ".*" and PCRE_DOTALL is not set
-(if it were set, the pattern would be anchored),
-<br>
-<br>
--1 is returned, indicating that the pattern matches only at the start of a
-subject string or after any newline within the string. Otherwise -2 is
-returned. For anchored patterns, -2 is returned.
 <pre>
   PCRE_INFO_REQUIREDCHARFLAGS
 </pre>
@@ -1725,19 +1758,24 @@
 documentation.
 </P>
 <P>
-The <i>tables</i> field is used to pass a character tables pointer to
-<b>pcre_exec()</b>; this overrides the value that is stored with the compiled
-pattern. A non-NULL value is stored with the compiled pattern only if custom
-tables were supplied to <b>pcre_compile()</b> via its <i>tableptr</i> argument.
-If NULL is passed to <b>pcre_exec()</b> using this mechanism, it forces PCRE's
-internal tables to be used. This facility is helpful when re-using patterns
-that have been saved after compiling with an external set of tables, because
-the external tables might be at a different address when <b>pcre_exec()</b> is
-called. See the
+The <i>tables</i> field is provided for use with patterns that have been
+pre-compiled using custom character tables, saved to disc or elsewhere, and
+then reloaded, because the tables that were used to compile a pattern are not
+saved with it. See the
 <a href="pcreprecompile.html"><b>pcreprecompile</b></a>
-documentation for a discussion of saving compiled patterns for later use.
+documentation for a discussion of saving compiled patterns for later use. If
+NULL is passed using this mechanism, it forces PCRE's internal tables to be
+used.
 </P>
 <P>
+<b>Warning:</b> The tables that <b>pcre_exec()</b> uses must be the same as those
+that were used when the pattern was compiled. If this is not the case, the
+behaviour of <b>pcre_exec()</b> is undefined. Therefore, when a pattern is
+compiled and matched in the same process, this field should never be set. In
+this (the most common) case, the correct table pointer is automatically passed
+with the compiled pattern from <b>pcre_compile()</b> to <b>pcre_exec()</b>.
+</P>
+<P>
 If PCRE_EXTRA_MARK is set in the <i>flags</i> field, the <i>mark</i> field must
 be set to point to a suitable variable. If the pattern contains any
 backtracking control verbs such as (*MARK:NAME), and the execution ends up with
@@ -1953,7 +1991,7 @@
 the value of <i>startoffset</i> points to the start of a character (or the end
 of the subject). When PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK is set, the effect of passing an
 invalid string as a subject or an invalid value of <i>startoffset</i> is
-undefined. Your program may crash.
+undefined. Your program may crash or loop.
 <pre>
   PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD
   PCRE_PARTIAL_SOFT
@@ -2786,6 +2824,15 @@
 the longest matches. Unlike <b>pcre_exec()</b>, <b>pcre_dfa_exec()</b> can use
 the entire <i>ovector</i> for returning matched strings.
 </P>
+<P>
+NOTE: PCRE's "auto-possessification" optimization usually applies to character
+repeats at the end of a pattern (as well as internally). For example, the
+pattern "a\d+" is compiled as if it were "a\d++" because there is no point
+even considering the possibility of backtracking into the repeated digits. For
+DFA matching, this means that only one possible match is found. If you really
+do want multiple matches in such cases, either use an ungreedy repeat
+("a\d+?") or set the PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS option when compiling.
+</P>
 <br><b>
 Error returns from <b>pcre_dfa_exec()</b>
 </b><br>
@@ -2852,7 +2899,7 @@
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC26" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br>
 <P>
-Last updated: 12 June 2013
+Last updated: 12 November 2013
 <br>
 Copyright &copy; 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 <br>


Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/pcrecallout.html
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/pcrecallout.html    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/pcrecallout.html    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -77,16 +77,51 @@
 Automatic callouts can be used for tracking the progress of pattern matching.
 The
 <a href="pcretest.html"><b>pcretest</b></a>
-command has an option that sets automatic callouts; when it is used, the output
-indicates how the pattern is matched. This is useful information when you are
-trying to optimize the performance of a particular pattern.
+program has a pattern qualifier (/C) that sets automatic callouts; when it is
+used, the output indicates how the pattern is being matched. This is useful
+information when you are trying to optimize the performance of a particular
+pattern.
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC3" href="#TOC1">MISSING CALLOUTS</a><br>
 <P>
-You should be aware that, because of optimizations in the way PCRE matches
-patterns by default, callouts sometimes do not happen. For example, if the
-pattern is
+You should be aware that, because of optimizations in the way PCRE compiles and
+matches patterns, callouts sometimes do not happen exactly as you might expect.
+</P>
+<P>
+At compile time, PCRE "auto-possessifies" repeated items when it knows that
+what follows cannot be part of the repeat. For example, a+[bc] is compiled as
+if it were a++[bc]. The <b>pcretest</b> output when this pattern is anchored and
+then applied with automatic callouts to the string "aaaa" is:
 <pre>
+  ---&#62;aaaa
+   +0 ^        ^
+   +1 ^        a+
+   +3 ^   ^    [bc]
+  No match
+</pre>
+This indicates that when matching [bc] fails, there is no backtracking into a+
+and therefore the callouts that would be taken for the backtracks do not occur.
+You can disable the auto-possessify feature by passing PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS
+to <b>pcre_compile()</b>, or starting the pattern with (*NO_AUTO_POSSESS). If
+this is done in <b>pcretest</b> (using the /O qualifier), the output changes to
+this:
+<pre>
+  ---&#62;aaaa
+   +0 ^        ^
+   +1 ^        a+
+   +3 ^   ^    [bc]
+   +3 ^  ^     [bc]
+   +3 ^ ^      [bc]
+   +3 ^^       [bc]
+  No match
+</pre>
+This time, when matching [bc] fails, the matcher backtracks into a+ and tries
+again, repeatedly, until a+ itself fails.
+</P>
+<P>
+Other optimizations that provide fast "no match" results also affect callouts.
+For example, if the pattern is
+<pre>
   ab(?C4)cd
 </pre>
 PCRE knows that any matching string must contain the letter "d". If the subject
@@ -109,11 +144,11 @@
 <br><a name="SEC4" href="#TOC1">THE CALLOUT INTERFACE</a><br>
 <P>
 During matching, when PCRE reaches a callout point, the external function
-defined by <i>pcre_callout</i> or <i>pcre[16|32]_callout</i> is called
-(if it is set). This applies to both normal and DFA matching. The only
-argument to the callout function is a pointer to a <b>pcre_callout</b>
-or <b>pcre[16|32]_callout</b> block.
-These structures contains the following fields:
+defined by <i>pcre_callout</i> or <i>pcre[16|32]_callout</i> is called (if it is
+set). This applies to both normal and DFA matching. The only argument to the
+callout function is a pointer to a <b>pcre_callout</b> or
+<b>pcre[16|32]_callout</b> block. These structures contains the following
+fields:
 <pre>
   int           <i>version</i>;
   int           <i>callout_number</i>;
@@ -242,7 +277,7 @@
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC7" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br>
 <P>
-Last updated: 03 March 2013
+Last updated: 12 November 2013
 <br>
 Copyright &copy; 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 <br>


Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/pcrecompat.html
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/pcrecompat.html    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/pcrecompat.html    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -138,18 +138,24 @@
 <P>
 15. Perl recognizes comments in some places that PCRE does not, for example,
 between the ( and ? at the start of a subpattern. If the /x modifier is set,
-Perl allows white space between ( and ? but PCRE never does, even if the
-PCRE_EXTENDED option is set.
+Perl allows white space between ( and ? (though current Perls warn that this is
+deprecated) but PCRE never does, even if the PCRE_EXTENDED option is set.
 </P>
 <P>
-16. In PCRE, the upper/lower case character properties Lu and Ll are not
+16. Perl, when in warning mode, gives warnings for character classes such as
+[A-\d] or [a-[:digit:]]. It then treats the hyphens as literals. PCRE has no
+warning features, so it gives an error in these cases because they are almost
+certainly user mistakes.
+</P>
+<P>
+17. In PCRE, the upper/lower case character properties Lu and Ll are not
 affected when case-independent matching is specified. For example, \p{Lu}
 always matches an upper case letter. I think Perl has changed in this respect;
 in the release at the time of writing (5.16), \p{Lu} and \p{Ll} match all
 letters, regardless of case, when case independence is specified.
 </P>
 <P>
-17. PCRE provides some extensions to the Perl regular expression facilities.
+18. PCRE provides some extensions to the Perl regular expression facilities.
 Perl 5.10 includes new features that are not in earlier versions of Perl, some
 of which (such as named parentheses) have been in PCRE for some time. This list
 is with respect to Perl 5.10:
@@ -220,7 +226,7 @@
 REVISION
 </b><br>
 <P>
-Last updated: 19 March 2013
+Last updated: 10 November 2013
 <br>
 Copyright &copy; 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 <br>


Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/pcrelimits.html
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/pcrelimits.html    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/pcrelimits.html    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -21,9 +21,10 @@
 </P>
 <P>
 The maximum length of a compiled pattern is approximately 64K data units (bytes
-for the 8-bit library, 32-bit units for the 32-bit library, and 32-bit units for
-the 32-bit library) if PCRE is compiled with the default internal linkage size
-of 2 bytes. If you want to process regular expressions that are truly enormous,
+for the 8-bit library, 16-bit units for the 16-bit library, and 32-bit units for
+the 32-bit library) if PCRE is compiled with the default internal linkage size,
+which is 2 bytes for the 8-bit and 16-bit libraries, and 4 bytes for the 32-bit
+library. If you want to process regular expressions that are truly enormous,
 you can compile PCRE with an internal linkage size of 3 or 4 (when building the
 16-bit or 32-bit library, 3 is rounded up to 4). See the <b>README</b> file in
 the source distribution and the
@@ -36,7 +37,10 @@
 </P>
 <P>
 There is no limit to the number of parenthesized subpatterns, but there can be
-no more than 65535 capturing subpatterns.
+no more than 65535 capturing subpatterns. There is, however, a limit to the
+depth of nesting of parenthesized subpatterns of all kinds. This is imposed in
+order to limit the amount of system stack used at compile time. The limit can
+be specified when PCRE is built; the default is 250.
 </P>
 <P>
 There is a limit to the number of forward references to subsequent subpatterns
@@ -50,7 +54,7 @@
 </P>
 <P>
 The maximum length of a name in a (*MARK), (*PRUNE), (*SKIP), or (*THEN) verb
-is 255 for the 8-bit library and 65535 for the 16-bit and 32-bit library.
+is 255 for the 8-bit library and 65535 for the 16-bit and 32-bit libraries.
 </P>
 <P>
 The maximum length of a subject string is the largest positive number that an
@@ -77,9 +81,9 @@
 REVISION
 </b><br>
 <P>
-Last updated: 04 May 2012
+Last updated: 05 November 2013
 <br>
-Copyright &copy; 1997-2012 University of Cambridge.
+Copyright &copy; 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 <br>
 <p>
 Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>.


Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/pcrematching.html
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/pcrematching.html    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/pcrematching.html    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -126,6 +126,15 @@
 matches that start at later positions.
 </P>
 <P>
+PCRE's "auto-possessification" optimization usually applies to character
+repeats at the end of a pattern (as well as internally). For example, the
+pattern "a\d+" is compiled as if it were "a\d++" because there is no point
+even considering the possibility of backtracking into the repeated digits. For
+DFA matching, this means that only one possible match is found. If you really
+do want multiple matches in such cases, either use an ungreedy repeat
+("a\d+?") or set the PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS option when compiling.
+</P>
+<P>
 There are a number of features of PCRE regular expressions that are not
 supported by the alternative matching algorithm. They are as follows:
 </P>
@@ -224,7 +233,7 @@
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC8" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br>
 <P>
-Last updated: 08 January 2012
+Last updated: 12 November 2013
 <br>
 Copyright &copy; 1997-2012 University of Cambridge.
 <br>


Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/pcrepartial.html
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/pcrepartial.html    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/pcrepartial.html    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -306,6 +306,16 @@
 program to do that if it needs to.
 </P>
 <P>
+That means that, for an unanchored pattern, if a continued match fails, it is
+not possible to try again at a new starting point. All this facility is capable
+of doing is continuing with the previous match attempt. In the previous
+example, if the second set of data is "ug23" the result is no match, even
+though there would be a match for "aug23" if the entire string were given at
+once. Depending on the application, this may or may not be what you want.
+The only way to allow for starting again at the next character is to retain the
+matched part of the subject and try a new complete match.
+</P>
+<P>
 You can set the PCRE_PARTIAL_SOFT or PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD options with
 PCRE_DFA_RESTART to continue partial matching over multiple segments. This
 facility can be used to pass very long subject strings to the DFA matching
@@ -490,7 +500,7 @@
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC11" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br>
 <P>
-Last updated: 20 February 2013
+Last updated: 02 July 2013
 <br>
 Copyright &copy; 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 <br>


Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/pcrepattern.html
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/pcrepattern.html    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/pcrepattern.html    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -116,21 +116,33 @@
 Unicode property support
 </b><br>
 <P>
-Another special sequence that may appear at the start of a pattern is
-<pre>
-  (*UCP)
-</pre>
+Another special sequence that may appear at the start of a pattern is (*UCP).
 This has the same effect as setting the PCRE_UCP option: it causes sequences
 such as \d and \w to use Unicode properties to determine character types,
 instead of recognizing only characters with codes less than 128 via a lookup
 table.
 </P>
 <br><b>
+Disabling auto-possessification
+</b><br>
+<P>
+If a pattern starts with (*NO_AUTO_POSSESS), it has the same effect as setting
+the PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS option at compile time. This stops PCRE from making
+quantifiers possessive when what follows cannot match the repeated item. For
+example, by default a+b is treated as a++b. For more details, see the
+<a href="pcreapi.html"><b>pcreapi</b></a>
+documentation.
+</P>
+<br><b>
 Disabling start-up optimizations
 </b><br>
 <P>
 If a pattern starts with (*NO_START_OPT), it has the same effect as setting the
-PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE option either at compile or matching time.
+PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE option either at compile or matching time. This disables
+several optimizations for quickly reaching "no match" results. For more
+details, see the
+<a href="pcreapi.html"><b>pcreapi</b></a>
+documentation.
 <a name="newlines"></a></P>
 <br><b>
 Newline conventions
@@ -193,10 +205,10 @@
   (*LIMIT_RECURSION=d)
 </pre>
 where d is any number of decimal digits. However, the value of the setting must
-be less than the value set by the caller of <b>pcre_exec()</b> for it to have
-any effect. In other words, the pattern writer can lower the limit set by the
-programmer, but not raise it. If there is more than one setting of one of these
-limits, the lower value is used.
+be less than the value set (or defaulted) by the caller of <b>pcre_exec()</b>
+for it to have any effect. In other words, the pattern writer can lower the
+limits set by the programmer, but not raise them. If there is more than one
+setting of one of these limits, the lower value is used.
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC3" href="#TOC1">EBCDIC CHARACTER CODES</a><br>
 <P>
@@ -283,10 +295,11 @@
 greater than 127) are treated as literals.
 </P>
 <P>
-If a pattern is compiled with the PCRE_EXTENDED option, white space in the
-pattern (other than in a character class) and characters between a # outside
-a character class and the next newline are ignored. An escaping backslash can
-be used to include a white space or # character as part of the pattern.
+If a pattern is compiled with the PCRE_EXTENDED option, most white space in the
+pattern (other than in a character class), and characters between a # outside a
+character class and the next newline, inclusive, are ignored. An escaping
+backslash can be used to include a white space or # character as part of the
+pattern.
 </P>
 <P>
 If you want to remove the special meaning from a sequence of characters, you
@@ -324,7 +337,9 @@
   \n        linefeed (hex 0A)
   \r        carriage return (hex 0D)
   \t        tab (hex 09)
+  \0dd      character with octal code 0dd
   \ddd      character with octal code ddd, or back reference
+  \o{ddd..} character with octal code ddd..
   \xhh      character with hex code hh
   \x{hhh..} character with hex code hhh.. (non-JavaScript mode)
   \uhhhh    character with hex code hhhh (JavaScript mode only)
@@ -347,42 +362,6 @@
 characters also generate different values.
 </P>
 <P>
-By default, after \x, from zero to two hexadecimal digits are read (letters
-can be in upper or lower case). Any number of hexadecimal digits may appear
-between \x{ and }, but the character code is constrained as follows:
-<pre>
-  8-bit non-UTF mode    less than 0x100
-  8-bit UTF-8 mode      less than 0x10ffff and a valid codepoint
-  16-bit non-UTF mode   less than 0x10000
-  16-bit UTF-16 mode    less than 0x10ffff and a valid codepoint
-  32-bit non-UTF mode   less than 0x80000000
-  32-bit UTF-32 mode    less than 0x10ffff and a valid codepoint
-</pre>
-Invalid Unicode codepoints are the range 0xd800 to 0xdfff (the so-called
-"surrogate" codepoints), and 0xffef.
-</P>
-<P>
-If characters other than hexadecimal digits appear between \x{ and }, or if
-there is no terminating }, this form of escape is not recognized. Instead, the
-initial \x will be interpreted as a basic hexadecimal escape, with no
-following digits, giving a character whose value is zero.
-</P>
-<P>
-If the PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT option is set, the interpretation of \x is
-as just described only when it is followed by two hexadecimal digits.
-Otherwise, it matches a literal "x" character. In JavaScript mode, support for
-code points greater than 256 is provided by \u, which must be followed by
-four hexadecimal digits; otherwise it matches a literal "u" character.
-Character codes specified by \u in JavaScript mode are constrained in the same
-was as those specified by \x in non-JavaScript mode.
-</P>
-<P>
-Characters whose value is less than 256 can be defined by either of the two
-syntaxes for \x (or by \u in JavaScript mode). There is no difference in the
-way they are handled. For example, \xdc is exactly the same as \x{dc} (or
-\u00dc in JavaScript mode).
-</P>
-<P>
 After \0 up to two further octal digits are read. If there are fewer than two
 digits, just those that are present are used. Thus the sequence \0\x\07
 specifies two binary zeros followed by a BEL character (code value 7). Make
@@ -390,9 +369,23 @@
 follows is itself an octal digit.
 </P>
 <P>
-The handling of a backslash followed by a digit other than 0 is complicated.
-Outside a character class, PCRE reads it and any following digits as a decimal
-number. If the number is less than 10, or if there have been at least that many
+The escape \o must be followed by a sequence of octal digits, enclosed in
+braces. An error occurs if this is not the case. This escape is a recent
+addition to Perl; it provides way of specifying character code points as octal
+numbers greater than 0777, and it also allows octal numbers and back references
+to be unambiguously specified.
+</P>
+<P>
+For greater clarity and unambiguity, it is best to avoid following \ by a
+digit greater than zero. Instead, use \o{} or \x{} to specify character
+numbers, and \g{} to specify back references. The following paragraphs
+describe the old, ambiguous syntax.
+</P>
+<P>
+The handling of a backslash followed by a digit other than 0 is complicated,
+and Perl has changed in recent releases, causing PCRE also to change. Outside a
+character class, PCRE reads the digit and any following digits as a decimal
+number. If the number is less than 8, or if there have been at least that many
 previous capturing left parentheses in the expression, the entire sequence is
 taken as a <i>back reference</i>. A description of how this works is given
 <a href="#backreferences">later,</a>
@@ -400,12 +393,11 @@
 <a href="#subpattern">parenthesized subpatterns.</a>
 </P>
 <P>
-Inside a character class, or if the decimal number is greater than 9 and there
-have not been that many capturing subpatterns, PCRE re-reads up to three octal
-digits following the backslash, and uses them to generate a data character. Any
-subsequent digits stand for themselves. The value of the character is
-constrained in the same way as characters specified in hexadecimal.
-For example:
+Inside a character class, or if the decimal number following \ is greater than
+7 and there have not been that many capturing subpatterns, PCRE handles \8 and
+\9 as the literal characters "8" and "9", and otherwise re-reads up to three
+octal digits following the backslash, using them to generate a data character.
+Any subsequent digits stand for themselves. For example:
 <pre>
   \040   is another way of writing an ASCII space
   \40    is the same, provided there are fewer than 40 previous capturing subpatterns
@@ -415,12 +407,53 @@
   \0113  is a tab followed by the character "3"
   \113   might be a back reference, otherwise the character with octal code 113
   \377   might be a back reference, otherwise the value 255 (decimal)
-  \81    is either a back reference, or a binary zero followed by the two characters "8" and "1"
+  \81    is either a back reference, or the two characters "8" and "1"
 </pre>
-Note that octal values of 100 or greater must not be introduced by a leading
-zero, because no more than three octal digits are ever read.
+Note that octal values of 100 or greater that are specified using this syntax
+must not be introduced by a leading zero, because no more than three octal
+digits are ever read.
 </P>
 <P>
+By default, after \x that is not followed by {, from zero to two hexadecimal
+digits are read (letters can be in upper or lower case). Any number of
+hexadecimal digits may appear between \x{ and }. If a character other than
+a hexadecimal digit appears between \x{ and }, or if there is no terminating
+}, an error occurs.
+</P>
+<P>
+If the PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT option is set, the interpretation of \x is
+as just described only when it is followed by two hexadecimal digits.
+Otherwise, it matches a literal "x" character. In JavaScript mode, support for
+code points greater than 256 is provided by \u, which must be followed by
+four hexadecimal digits; otherwise it matches a literal "u" character.
+</P>
+<P>
+Characters whose value is less than 256 can be defined by either of the two
+syntaxes for \x (or by \u in JavaScript mode). There is no difference in the
+way they are handled. For example, \xdc is exactly the same as \x{dc} (or
+\u00dc in JavaScript mode).
+</P>
+<br><b>
+Constraints on character values
+</b><br>
+<P>
+Characters that are specified using octal or hexadecimal numbers are
+limited to certain values, as follows:
+<pre>
+  8-bit non-UTF mode    less than 0x100
+  8-bit UTF-8 mode      less than 0x10ffff and a valid codepoint
+  16-bit non-UTF mode   less than 0x10000
+  16-bit UTF-16 mode    less than 0x10ffff and a valid codepoint
+  32-bit non-UTF mode   less than 0x100000000
+  32-bit UTF-32 mode    less than 0x10ffff and a valid codepoint
+</pre>
+Invalid Unicode codepoints are the range 0xd800 to 0xdfff (the so-called
+"surrogate" codepoints), and 0xffef.
+</P>
+<br><b>
+Escape sequences in character classes
+</b><br>
+<P>
 All the sequences that define a single character value can be used both inside
 and outside character classes. In addition, inside a character class, \b is
 interpreted as the backspace character (hex 08).
@@ -498,11 +531,13 @@
 there is no character to match.
 </P>
 <P>
-For compatibility with Perl, \s does not match the VT character (code 11).
-This makes it different from the the POSIX "space" class. The \s characters
-are HT (9), LF (10), FF (12), CR (13), and space (32). If "use locale;" is
-included in a Perl script, \s may match the VT character. In PCRE, it never
-does.
+For compatibility with Perl, \s did not used to match the VT character (code
+11), which made it different from the the POSIX "space" class. However, Perl
+added VT at release 5.18, and PCRE followed suit at release 8.34. The default
+\s characters are now HT (9), LF (10), VT (11), FF (12), CR (13), and space
+(32), which are defined as white space in the "C" locale. This list may vary if
+locale-specific matching is taking place; in particular, in some locales the
+"non-breaking space" character (\xA0) is recognized as white space.
 </P>
 <P>
 A "word" character is an underscore or any character that is a letter or digit.
@@ -513,21 +548,23 @@
 in the
 <a href="pcreapi.html"><b>pcreapi</b></a>
 page). For example, in a French locale such as "fr_FR" in Unix-like systems,
-or "french" in Windows, some character codes greater than 128 are used for
+or "french" in Windows, some character codes greater than 127 are used for
 accented letters, and these are then matched by \w. The use of locales with
 Unicode is discouraged.
 </P>
 <P>
-By default, in a UTF mode, characters with values greater than 128 never match
-\d, \s, or \w, and always match \D, \S, and \W. These sequences retain
-their original meanings from before UTF support was available, mainly for
-efficiency reasons. However, if PCRE is compiled with Unicode property support,
-and the PCRE_UCP option is set, the behaviour is changed so that Unicode
-properties are used to determine character types, as follows:
+By default, characters whose code points are greater than 127 never match \d,
+\s, or \w, and always match \D, \S, and \W, although this may vary for
+characters in the range 128-255 when locale-specific matching is happening.
+These escape sequences retain their original meanings from before Unicode
+support was available, mainly for efficiency reasons. If PCRE is compiled with
+Unicode property support, and the PCRE_UCP option is set, the behaviour is
+changed so that Unicode properties are used to determine character types, as
+follows:
 <pre>
-  \d  any character that \p{Nd} matches (decimal digit)
-  \s  any character that \p{Z} matches, plus HT, LF, FF, CR
-  \w  any character that \p{L} or \p{N} matches, plus underscore
+  \d  any character that matches \p{Nd} (decimal digit)
+  \s  any character that matches \p{Z} or \h or \v
+  \w  any character that matches \p{L} or \p{N}, plus underscore
 </pre>
 The upper case escapes match the inverse sets of characters. Note that \d
 matches only decimal digits, whereas \w matches any Unicode digit, as well as
@@ -538,7 +575,7 @@
 <P>
 The sequences \h, \H, \v, and \V are features that were added to Perl at
 release 5.10. In contrast to the other sequences, which match only ASCII
-characters by default, these always match certain high-valued codepoints,
+characters by default, these always match certain high-valued code points,
 whether or not PCRE_UCP is set. The horizontal space characters are:
 <pre>
   U+0009     Horizontal tab (HT)
@@ -913,9 +950,9 @@
 <P>
 As well as the standard Unicode properties described above, PCRE supports four
 more that make it possible to convert traditional escape sequences such as \w
-and \s and POSIX character classes to use Unicode properties. PCRE uses these
-non-standard, non-Perl properties internally when PCRE_UCP is set. However,
-they may also be used explicitly. These properties are:
+and \s to use Unicode properties. PCRE uses these non-standard, non-Perl
+properties internally when PCRE_UCP is set. However, they may also be used
+explicitly. These properties are:
 <pre>
   Xan   Any alphanumeric character
   Xps   Any POSIX space character
@@ -925,8 +962,9 @@
 Xan matches characters that have either the L (letter) or the N (number)
 property. Xps matches the characters tab, linefeed, vertical tab, form feed, or
 carriage return, and any other character that has the Z (separator) property.
-Xsp is the same as Xps, except that vertical tab is excluded. Xwd matches the
-same characters as Xan, plus underscore.
+Xsp is the same as Xps; it used to exclude vertical tab, for Perl
+compatibility, but Perl changed, and so PCRE followed at release 8.34. Xwd
+matches the same characters as Xan, plus underscore.
 </P>
 <P>
 There is another non-standard property, Xuc, which matches any character that
@@ -1218,7 +1256,9 @@
 character class. For example, [d-m] matches any letter between d and m,
 inclusive. If a minus character is required in a class, it must be escaped with
 a backslash or appear in a position where it cannot be interpreted as
-indicating a range, typically as the first or last character in the class.
+indicating a range, typically as the first or last character in the class, or
+immediately after a range. For example, [b-d-z] matches letters in the range b
+to d, a hyphen character, or z.
 </P>
 <P>
 It is not possible to have the literal character "]" as the end character of a
@@ -1230,6 +1270,12 @@
 "]" can also be used to end a range.
 </P>
 <P>
+An error is generated if a POSIX character class (see below) or an escape
+sequence other than one that defines a single character appears at a point
+where a range ending character is expected. For example, [z-\xff] is valid,
+but [A-\d] and [A-[:digit:]] are not.
+</P>
+<P>
 Ranges operate in the collating sequence of character values. They can also be
 used for characters specified numerically, for example [\000-\037]. Ranges
 can include any characters that are valid for the current mode.
@@ -1294,15 +1340,17 @@
   lower    lower case letters
   print    printing characters, including space
   punct    printing characters, excluding letters and digits and space
-  space    white space (not quite the same as \s)
+  space    white space (the same as \s from PCRE 8.34)
   upper    upper case letters
   word     "word" characters (same as \w)
   xdigit   hexadecimal digits
 </pre>
-The "space" characters are HT (9), LF (10), VT (11), FF (12), CR (13), and
-space (32). Notice that this list includes the VT character (code 11). This
-makes "space" different to \s, which does not include VT (for Perl
-compatibility).
+The default "space" characters are HT (9), LF (10), VT (11), FF (12), CR (13),
+and space (32). If locale-specific matching is taking place, there may be
+additional space characters. "Space" used to be different to \s, which did not
+include VT, for Perl compatibility. However, Perl changed at release 5.18, and
+PCRE followed at release 8.34. "Space" and \s now match the same set of
+characters.
 </P>
 <P>
 The name "word" is a Perl extension, and "blank" is a GNU extension from Perl
@@ -1316,11 +1364,11 @@
 supported, and an error is given if they are encountered.
 </P>
 <P>
-By default, in UTF modes, characters with values greater than 128 do not match
-any of the POSIX character classes. However, if the PCRE_UCP option is passed
-to <b>pcre_compile()</b>, some of the classes are changed so that Unicode
-character properties are used. This is achieved by replacing the POSIX classes
-by other sequences, as follows:
+By default, characters with values greater than 128 do not match any of the
+POSIX character classes. However, if the PCRE_UCP option is passed to
+<b>pcre_compile()</b>, some of the classes are changed so that Unicode character
+properties are used. This is achieved by replacing certain POSIX classes by
+other sequences, as follows:
 <pre>
   [:alnum:]  becomes  \p{Xan}
   [:alpha:]  becomes  \p{L}
@@ -1331,10 +1379,36 @@
   [:upper:]  becomes  \p{Lu}
   [:word:]   becomes  \p{Xwd}
 </pre>
-Negated versions, such as [:^alpha:] use \P instead of \p. The other POSIX
-classes are unchanged, and match only characters with code points less than
-128.
+Negated versions, such as [:^alpha:] use \P instead of \p. Three other POSIX
+classes are handled specially in UCP mode:
 </P>
+<P>
+[:graph:]
+This matches characters that have glyphs that mark the page when printed. In
+Unicode property terms, it matches all characters with the L, M, N, P, S, or Cf
+properties, except for:
+<pre>
+  U+061C           Arabic Letter Mark
+  U+180E           Mongolian Vowel Separator
+  U+2066 - U+2069  Various "isolate"s
+
+</PRE>
+</P>
+<P>
+[:print:]
+This matches the same characters as [:graph:] plus space characters that are
+not controls, that is, characters with the Zs property.
+</P>
+<P>
+[:punct:]
+This matches all characters that have the Unicode P (punctuation) property,
+plus those characters whose code points are less than 128 that have the S
+(Symbol) property.
+</P>
+<P>
+The other POSIX classes are unchanged, and match only characters with code
+points less than 128.
+</P>
 <br><a name="SEC11" href="#TOC1">VERTICAL BAR</a><br>
 <P>
 Vertical bar characters are used to separate alternative patterns. For example,
@@ -1535,11 +1609,12 @@
 can be made by name as well as by number.
 </P>
 <P>
-Names consist of up to 32 alphanumeric characters and underscores. Named
-capturing parentheses are still allocated numbers as well as names, exactly as
-if the names were not present. The PCRE API provides function calls for
-extracting the name-to-number translation table from a compiled pattern. There
-is also a convenience function for extracting a captured substring by name.
+Names consist of up to 32 alphanumeric characters and underscores, but must
+start with a non-digit. Named capturing parentheses are still allocated numbers
+as well as names, exactly as if the names were not present. The PCRE API
+provides function calls for extracting the name-to-number translation table
+from a compiled pattern. There is also a convenience function for extracting a
+captured substring by name.
 </P>
 <P>
 By default, a name must be unique within a pattern, but it is possible to relax
@@ -1568,9 +1643,23 @@
 </P>
 <P>
 If you make a back reference to a non-unique named subpattern from elsewhere in
-the pattern, the one that corresponds to the first occurrence of the name is
-used. In the absence of duplicate numbers (see the previous section) this is
-the one with the lowest number. If you use a named reference in a condition
+the pattern, the subpatterns to which the name refers are checked in the order
+in which they appear in the overall pattern. The first one that is set is used
+for the reference. For example, this pattern matches both "foofoo" and
+"barbar" but not "foobar" or "barfoo":
+<pre>
+  (?:(?&#60;n&#62;foo)|(?&#60;n&#62;bar))\k&#60;n&#62;
+
+</PRE>
+</P>
+<P>
+If you make a subroutine call to a non-unique named subpattern, the one that
+corresponds to the first occurrence of the name is used. In the absence of
+duplicate numbers (see the previous section) this is the one with the lowest
+number.
+</P>
+<P>
+If you use a named reference in a condition
 test (see the
 <a href="#conditions">section about conditions</a>
 below), either to check whether a subpattern has matched, or to check for
@@ -1585,8 +1674,9 @@
 <b>Warning:</b> You cannot use different names to distinguish between two
 subpatterns with the same number because PCRE uses only the numbers when
 matching. For this reason, an error is given at compile time if different names
-are given to subpatterns with the same number. However, you can give the same
-name to subpatterns with the same number, even when PCRE_DUPNAMES is not set.
+are given to subpatterns with the same number. However, you can always give the
+same name to subpatterns with the same number, even when PCRE_DUPNAMES is not
+set.
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC16" href="#TOC1">REPETITION</a><br>
 <P>
@@ -2252,12 +2342,7 @@
 <P>
 Perl uses the syntax (?(&#60;name&#62;)...) or (?('name')...) to test for a used
 subpattern by name. For compatibility with earlier versions of PCRE, which had
-this facility before Perl, the syntax (?(name)...) is also recognized. However,
-there is a possible ambiguity with this syntax, because subpattern names may
-consist entirely of digits. PCRE looks first for a named subpattern; if it
-cannot find one and the name consists entirely of digits, PCRE looks for a
-subpattern of that number, which must be greater than zero. Using subpattern
-names that consist entirely of digits is not recommended.
+this facility before Perl, the syntax (?(name)...) is also recognized.
 </P>
 <P>
 Rewriting the above example to use a named subpattern gives this:
@@ -2674,8 +2759,14 @@
 called. It is provided with the number of the callout, the position in the
 pattern, and, optionally, one item of data originally supplied by the caller of
 the matching function. The callout function may cause matching to proceed, to
-backtrack, or to fail altogether. A complete description of the interface to
-the callout function is given in the
+backtrack, or to fail altogether.
+</P>
+<P>
+By default, PCRE implements a number of optimizations at compile time and
+matching time, and one side-effect is that sometimes callouts are skipped. If
+you need all possible callouts to happen, you need to set options that disable
+the relevant optimizations. More details, and a complete description of the
+interface to the callout function, are given in the
 <a href="pcrecallout.html"><b>pcrecallout</b></a>
 documentation.
 <a name="backtrackcontrol"></a></P>
@@ -3026,7 +3117,7 @@
 <pre>
   ...(*COMMIT)(*PRUNE)...
 </pre>
-If there is a matching failure to the right, backtracking onto (*PRUNE) cases
+If there is a matching failure to the right, backtracking onto (*PRUNE) causes
 it to be triggered, and its action is taken. There can never be a backtrack
 onto (*COMMIT).
 <a name="btrepeat"></a></P>
@@ -3109,7 +3200,7 @@
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC29" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br>
 <P>
-Last updated: 26 April 2013
+Last updated: 12 November 2013
 <br>
 Copyright &copy; 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 <br>


Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/pcreprecompile.html
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/pcreprecompile.html    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/pcreprecompile.html    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@
 <br><a name="SEC3" href="#TOC1">RE-USING A PRECOMPILED PATTERN</a><br>
 <P>
 Re-using a precompiled pattern is straightforward. Having reloaded it into main
-memory, called <b>pcre[16|32]_pattern_to_host_byte_order()</b> if necessary,
-you pass its pointer to <b>pcre[16|32]_exec()</b> or <b>pcre[16|32]_dfa_exec()</b> in
+memory, called <b>pcre[16|32]_pattern_to_host_byte_order()</b> if necessary, you
+pass its pointer to <b>pcre[16|32]_exec()</b> or <b>pcre[16|32]_dfa_exec()</b> in
 the usual way.
 </P>
 <P>
@@ -119,6 +119,11 @@
 documentation.
 </P>
 <P>
+<b>Warning:</b> The tables that <b>pcre_exec()</b> and <b>pcre_dfa_exec()</b> use
+must be the same as those that were used when the pattern was compiled. If this
+is not the case, the behaviour is undefined.
+</P>
+<P>
 If you did not provide custom character tables when the pattern was compiled,
 the pointer in the compiled pattern is NULL, which causes the matching
 functions to use PCRE's internal tables. Thus, you do not need to take any
@@ -126,9 +131,9 @@
 </P>
 <P>
 If you saved study data with the compiled pattern, you need to create your own
-<b>pcre[16|32]_extra</b> data block and set the <i>study_data</i> field to point to the
-reloaded study data. You must also set the PCRE_EXTRA_STUDY_DATA bit in the
-<i>flags</i> field to indicate that study data is present. Then pass the
+<b>pcre[16|32]_extra</b> data block and set the <i>study_data</i> field to point
+to the reloaded study data. You must also set the PCRE_EXTRA_STUDY_DATA bit in
+the <i>flags</i> field to indicate that study data is present. Then pass the
 <b>pcre[16|32]_extra</b> block to the matching function in the usual way. If the
 pattern was studied for just-in-time optimization, that data cannot be saved,
 and so is lost by a save/restore cycle.
@@ -149,9 +154,9 @@
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC6" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br>
 <P>
-Last updated: 24 June 2012
+Last updated: 12 November 2013
 <br>
-Copyright &copy; 1997-2012 University of Cambridge.
+Copyright &copy; 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 <br>
 <p>
 Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>.


Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/pcresyntax.html
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/pcresyntax.html    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/pcresyntax.html    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -65,10 +65,14 @@
   \n         newline (hex 0A)
   \r         carriage return (hex 0D)
   \t         tab (hex 09)
+  \0dd       character with octal code 0dd
   \ddd       character with octal code ddd, or backreference
+  \o{ddd..}  character with octal code ddd..
   \xhh       character with hex code hh
   \x{hhh..}  character with hex code hhh..
-</PRE>
+</pre>
+Note that \0dd is always an octal code, and that \8 and \9 are the literal
+characters "8" and "9".
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC4" href="#TOC1">CHARACTER TYPES</a><br>
 <P>
@@ -92,9 +96,11 @@
   \W         a "non-word" character
   \X         a Unicode extended grapheme cluster
 </pre>
-In PCRE, by default, \d, \D, \s, \S, \w, and \W recognize only ASCII
-characters, even in a UTF mode. However, this can be changed by setting the
-PCRE_UCP option.
+By default, \d, \s, and \w match only ASCII characters, even in UTF-8 mode
+or in the 16- bit and 32-bit libraries. However, if locale-specific matching is
+happening, \s and \w may also match characters with code points in the range
+128-255. If the PCRE_UCP option is set, the behaviour of these escape sequences
+is changed to use Unicode properties and they match many more characters.
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC5" href="#TOC1">GENERAL CATEGORY PROPERTIES FOR \p and \P</a><br>
 <P>
@@ -150,11 +156,13 @@
 <pre>
   Xan        Alphanumeric: union of properties L and N
   Xps        POSIX space: property Z or tab, NL, VT, FF, CR
-  Xsp        Perl space: property Z or tab, NL, FF, CR
+  Xsp        Perl space: property Z or tab, NL, VT, FF, CR
   Xuc        Univerally-named character: one that can be
                represented by a Universal Character Name
   Xwd        Perl word: property Xan or underscore
-</PRE>
+</pre>
+Perl and POSIX space are now the same. Perl added VT to its space character set
+at release 5.18 and PCRE changed at release 8.34.
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC7" href="#TOC1">SCRIPT NAMES FOR \p AND \P</a><br>
 <P>
@@ -385,7 +393,9 @@
   (*UTF32)        set UTF-32 mode: 32-bit library (PCRE_UTF32)
   (*UTF)          set appropriate UTF mode for the library in use
   (*UCP)          set PCRE_UCP (use Unicode properties for \d etc)
-</PRE>
+</pre>
+Note that LIMIT_MATCH and LIMIT_RECURSION can only reduce the value of the
+limits set by the caller of pcre_exec(), not increase them.
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC17" href="#TOC1">LOOKAHEAD AND LOOKBEHIND ASSERTIONS</a><br>
 <P>
@@ -516,7 +526,7 @@
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC27" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br>
 <P>
-Last updated: 26 April 2013
+Last updated: 12 November 2013
 <br>
 Copyright &copy; 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 <br>


Modified: code/trunk/doc/html/pcretest.html
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/html/pcretest.html    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/html/pcretest.html    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -187,6 +187,11 @@
 bytes for both libraries.
 </P>
 <P>
+<b>-O</b>
+Behave as if each pattern has the <b>/O</b> modifier, that is disable
+auto-possessification for all patterns.
+</P>
+<P>
 <b>-o</b> <i>osize</i>
 Set the number of elements in the output vector that is used when calling
 <b>pcre[16|32]_exec()</b> or <b>pcre[16|32]_dfa_exec()</b> to be <i>osize</i>. The
@@ -256,19 +261,24 @@
 </P>
 <P>
 <b>-t</b>
-Run each compile, study, and match many times with a timer, and output
-resulting time per compile or match (in milliseconds). Do not set <b>-m</b> with
-<b>-t</b>, because you will then get the size output a zillion times, and the
-timing will be distorted. You can control the number of iterations that are
-used for timing by following <b>-t</b> with a number (as a separate item on the
-command line). For example, "-t 1000" would iterate 1000 times. The default is
-to iterate 500000 times.
+Run each compile, study, and match many times with a timer, and output the
+resulting times per compile, study, or match (in milliseconds). Do not set
+<b>-m</b> with <b>-t</b>, because you will then get the size output a zillion
+times, and the timing will be distorted. You can control the number of
+iterations that are used for timing by following <b>-t</b> with a number (as a
+separate item on the command line). For example, "-t 1000" iterates 1000 times.
+The default is to iterate 500000 times.
 </P>
 <P>
 <b>-tm</b>
 This is like <b>-t</b> except that it times only the matching phase, not the
 compile or study phases.
 </P>
+<P>
+<b>-T</b> <b>-TM</b>
+These behave like <b>-t</b> and <b>-tm</b>, but in addition, at the end of a run,
+the total times for all compiles, studies, and matches are output.
+</P>
 <br><a name="SEC5" href="#TOC1">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
 <P>
 If <b>pcretest</b> is given two filename arguments, it reads from the first and
@@ -287,7 +297,7 @@
 <P>
 The program handles any number of sets of input on a single input file. Each
 set starts with a regular expression, and continues with any number of data
-lines to be matched against the pattern.
+lines to be matched against that pattern.
 </P>
 <P>
 Each data line is matched separately and independently. If you want to do
@@ -361,6 +371,7 @@
   <b>/M</b>              show compiled memory size
   <b>/m</b>              set PCRE_MULTILINE
   <b>/N</b>              set PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE
+  <b>/O</b>              set PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS
   <b>/P</b>              use the POSIX wrapper
   <b>/S</b>              study the pattern after compilation
   <b>/s</b>              set PCRE_DOTALL
@@ -419,6 +430,7 @@
   <b>/f</b>              PCRE_FIRSTLINE
   <b>/J</b>              PCRE_DUPNAMES
   <b>/N</b>              PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE
+  <b>/O</b>              PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS
   <b>/U</b>              PCRE_UNGREEDY
   <b>/W</b>              PCRE_UCP
   <b>/X</b>              PCRE_EXTRA
@@ -562,8 +574,8 @@
 They may appear in any order.
 </P>
 <P>
-If <b>S</b> is followed by an exclamation mark, <b>pcre[16|32]_study()</b> is called
-with the PCRE_STUDY_EXTRA_NEEDED option, causing it always to return a
+If <b>/S</b> is followed by an exclamation mark, <b>pcre[16|32]_study()</b> is
+called with the PCRE_STUDY_EXTRA_NEEDED option, causing it always to return a
 <b>pcre_extra</b> block, even when studying discovers no useful information.
 </P>
 <P>
@@ -642,6 +654,37 @@
 The <b>/+</b> modifier works as described above. All other modifiers are
 ignored.
 </P>
+<br><b>
+Locking out certain modifiers
+</b><br>
+<P>
+PCRE can be compiled with or without support for certain features such as
+UTF-8/16/32 or Unicode properties. Accordingly, the standard tests are split up
+into a number of different files that are selected for running depending on
+which features are available. When updating the tests, it is all too easy to
+put a new test into the wrong file by mistake; for example, to put a test that
+requires UTF support into a file that is used when it is not available. To help
+detect such mistakes as early as possible, there is a facility for locking out
+specific modifiers. If an input line for <b>pcretest</b> starts with the string
+"&#60; forbid " the following sequence of characters is taken as a list of
+forbidden modifiers. For example, in the test files that must not use UTF or
+Unicode property support, this line appears:
+<pre>
+  &#60; forbid 8W
+</pre>
+This locks out the /8 and /W modifiers. An immediate error is given if they are
+subsequently encountered. If the character string contains &#60; but not &#62;, all the
+multi-character modifiers that begin with &#60; are locked out. Otherwise, such
+modifiers must be explicitly listed, for example:
+<pre>
+  &#60; forbid &#60;JS&#62;&#60;cr&#62;
+</pre>
+There must be a single space between &#60; and "forbid" for this feature to be
+recognised. If there is not, the line is interpreted either as a request to
+re-load a pre-compiled pattern (see "SAVING AND RELOADING COMPILED PATTERNS"
+below) or, if there is a another &#60; character, as a pattern that uses &#60; as its
+delimiter.
+</P>
 <br><a name="SEC7" href="#TOC1">DATA LINES</a><br>
 <P>
 Before each data line is passed to <b>pcre[16|32]_exec()</b>, leading and trailing
@@ -662,6 +705,7 @@
   \v         vertical tab (\x0b)
   \nnn       octal character (up to 3 octal digits); always
                a byte unless &#62; 255 in UTF-8 or 16-bit or 32-bit mode
+  \o{dd...}  octal character (any number of octal digits}
   \xhh       hexadecimal byte (up to 2 hex digits)
   \x{hh...}  hexadecimal character (any number of hex digits)
   \A         pass the PCRE_ANCHORED option to <b>pcre[16|32]_exec()</b> or <b>pcre[16|32]_dfa_exec()</b>
@@ -1031,10 +1075,9 @@
 </P>
 <P>
 A saved pattern can be reloaded into <b>pcretest</b> by specifying &#60; and a file
-name instead of a pattern. The name of the file must not contain a &#60; character,
-as otherwise <b>pcretest</b> will interpret the line as a pattern delimited by &#60;
-characters.
-For example:
+name instead of a pattern. There must be no space between &#60; and the file name,
+which must not contain a &#60; character, as otherwise <b>pcretest</b> will
+interpret the line as a pattern delimited by &#60; characters. For example:
 <pre>
    re&#62; &#60;/some/file
   Compiled pattern loaded from /some/file
@@ -1091,7 +1134,7 @@
 </P>
 <br><a name="SEC17" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br>
 <P>
-Last updated: 26 April 2013
+Last updated: 12 November 2013
 <br>
 Copyright &copy; 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 <br>


Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcre.txt
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/pcre.txt    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcre.txt    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
        5.12, including support for UTF-8/16/32  encoded  strings  and  Unicode
        general  category  properties. However, UTF-8/16/32 and Unicode support
        has to be explicitly enabled; it is not the default. The Unicode tables
-       correspond to Unicode release 6.2.0.
+       correspond to Unicode release 6.3.0.


        In  addition to the Perl-compatible matching function, PCRE contains an
        alternative function that matches the same compiled patterns in a  dif-
@@ -180,8 +180,8 @@
        Last updated: 13 May 2013
        Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCRE(3)                    Library Functions Manual                    PCRE(3)



@@ -512,8 +512,8 @@
        Last updated: 12 May 2013
        Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCRE(3)                    Library Functions Manual                    PCRE(3)



@@ -840,8 +840,8 @@
        Last updated: 12 May 2013
        Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCREBUILD(3)               Library Functions Manual               PCREBUILD(3)



@@ -1343,8 +1343,8 @@
        Last updated: 12 May 2013
        Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCREMATCHING(3)            Library Functions Manual            PCREMATCHING(3)



@@ -1457,72 +1457,81 @@
        at the fifth character of the subject. The algorithm does not automati-
        cally move on to find matches that start at later positions.


+       PCRE's  "auto-possessification" optimization usually applies to charac-
+       ter repeats at the end of a pattern (as well as internally). For  exam-
+       ple, the pattern "a\d+" is compiled as if it were "a\d++" because there
+       is no point even considering the possibility of backtracking  into  the
+       repeated  digits.  For  DFA matching, this means that only one possible
+       match is found. If you really do want multiple matches in  such  cases,
+       either use an ungreedy repeat ("a\d+?") or set the PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS
+       option when compiling.
+
        There are a number of features of PCRE regular expressions that are not
        supported by the alternative matching algorithm. They are as follows:


-       1. Because the algorithm finds all  possible  matches,  the  greedy  or
-       ungreedy  nature  of repetition quantifiers is not relevant. Greedy and
+       1.  Because  the  algorithm  finds  all possible matches, the greedy or
+       ungreedy nature of repetition quantifiers is not relevant.  Greedy  and
        ungreedy quantifiers are treated in exactly the same way. However, pos-
-       sessive  quantifiers can make a difference when what follows could also
+       sessive quantifiers can make a difference when what follows could  also
        match what is quantified, for example in a pattern like this:


          ^a++\w!


-       This pattern matches "aaab!" but not "aaa!", which would be matched  by
-       a  non-possessive quantifier. Similarly, if an atomic group is present,
-       it is matched as if it were a standalone pattern at the current  point,
-       and  the  longest match is then "locked in" for the rest of the overall
+       This  pattern matches "aaab!" but not "aaa!", which would be matched by
+       a non-possessive quantifier. Similarly, if an atomic group is  present,
+       it  is matched as if it were a standalone pattern at the current point,
+       and the longest match is then "locked in" for the rest of  the  overall
        pattern.


        2. When dealing with multiple paths through the tree simultaneously, it
-       is  not  straightforward  to  keep track of captured substrings for the
-       different matching possibilities, and  PCRE's  implementation  of  this
+       is not straightforward to keep track of  captured  substrings  for  the
+       different  matching  possibilities,  and  PCRE's implementation of this
        algorithm does not attempt to do this. This means that no captured sub-
        strings are available.


-       3. Because no substrings are captured, back references within the  pat-
+       3.  Because no substrings are captured, back references within the pat-
        tern are not supported, and cause errors if encountered.


-       4.  For  the same reason, conditional expressions that use a backrefer-
-       ence as the condition or test for a specific group  recursion  are  not
+       4. For the same reason, conditional expressions that use  a  backrefer-
+       ence  as  the  condition or test for a specific group recursion are not
        supported.


-       5.  Because  many  paths  through the tree may be active, the \K escape
+       5. Because many paths through the tree may be  active,  the  \K  escape
        sequence, which resets the start of the match when encountered (but may
-       be  on  some  paths  and not on others), is not supported. It causes an
+       be on some paths and not on others), is not  supported.  It  causes  an
        error if encountered.


-       6. Callouts are supported, but the value of the  capture_top  field  is
+       6.  Callouts  are  supported, but the value of the capture_top field is
        always 1, and the value of the capture_last field is always -1.


-       7.  The  \C  escape  sequence, which (in the standard algorithm) always
-       matches a single data unit, even in UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32  modes,  is
-       not  supported  in these modes, because the alternative algorithm moves
+       7. The \C escape sequence, which (in  the  standard  algorithm)  always
+       matches  a  single data unit, even in UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32 modes, is
+       not supported in these modes, because the alternative  algorithm  moves
        through the subject string one character (not data unit) at a time, for
        all active paths through the tree.


-       8.  Except for (*FAIL), the backtracking control verbs such as (*PRUNE)
-       are not supported. (*FAIL) is supported, and  behaves  like  a  failing
+       8. Except for (*FAIL), the backtracking control verbs such as  (*PRUNE)
+       are  not  supported.  (*FAIL)  is supported, and behaves like a failing
        negative assertion.



ADVANTAGES OF THE ALTERNATIVE ALGORITHM

-       Using  the alternative matching algorithm provides the following advan-
+       Using the alternative matching algorithm provides the following  advan-
        tages:


        1. All possible matches (at a single point in the subject) are automat-
-       ically  found,  and  in particular, the longest match is found. To find
+       ically found, and in particular, the longest match is  found.  To  find
        more than one match using the standard algorithm, you have to do kludgy
        things with callouts.


-       2.  Because  the  alternative  algorithm  scans the subject string just
+       2. Because the alternative algorithm  scans  the  subject  string  just
        once, and never needs to backtrack (except for lookbehinds), it is pos-
-       sible  to  pass  very  long subject strings to the matching function in
+       sible to pass very long subject strings to  the  matching  function  in
        several pieces, checking for partial matching each time. Although it is
-       possible  to  do multi-segment matching using the standard algorithm by
-       retaining partially matched substrings, it  is  more  complicated.  The
-       pcrepartial  documentation  gives  details of partial matching and dis-
+       possible to do multi-segment matching using the standard  algorithm  by
+       retaining  partially  matched  substrings,  it is more complicated. The
+       pcrepartial documentation gives details of partial  matching  and  dis-
        cusses multi-segment matching.



@@ -1530,8 +1539,8 @@

        The alternative algorithm suffers from a number of disadvantages:


-       1. It is substantially slower than  the  standard  algorithm.  This  is
-       partly  because  it has to search for all possible matches, but is also
+       1.  It  is  substantially  slower  than the standard algorithm. This is
+       partly because it has to search for all possible matches, but  is  also
        because it is less susceptible to optimization.


        2. Capturing parentheses and back references are not supported.
@@ -1549,11 +1558,11 @@


REVISION

-       Last updated: 08 January 2012
+       Last updated: 12 November 2013
        Copyright (c) 1997-2012 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCREAPI(3)                 Library Functions Manual                 PCREAPI(3)



@@ -1957,27 +1966,34 @@
        POSIX interface uses malloc() for output vectors. Further  details  are
        given in the pcreposix documentation.


+         PCRE_CONFIG_PARENS_LIMIT
+
+       The output is a long integer that gives the maximum depth of nesting of
+       parentheses (of any kind) in a pattern. This limit is  imposed  to  cap
+       the amount of system stack used when a pattern is compiled. It is spec-
+       ified when PCRE is built; the default is 250.
+
          PCRE_CONFIG_MATCH_LIMIT


-       The  output is a long integer that gives the default limit for the num-
-       ber of internal matching function calls  in  a  pcre_exec()  execution.
+       The output is a long integer that gives the default limit for the  num-
+       ber  of  internal  matching  function calls in a pcre_exec() execution.
        Further details are given with pcre_exec() below.


          PCRE_CONFIG_MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION


        The output is a long integer that gives the default limit for the depth
-       of  recursion  when  calling  the  internal  matching  function  in   a
-       pcre_exec()  execution.  Further  details  are  given  with pcre_exec()
+       of   recursion  when  calling  the  internal  matching  function  in  a
+       pcre_exec() execution.  Further  details  are  given  with  pcre_exec()
        below.


          PCRE_CONFIG_STACKRECURSE


-       The output is an integer that is set to one if internal recursion  when
+       The  output is an integer that is set to one if internal recursion when
        running pcre_exec() is implemented by recursive function calls that use
-       the stack to remember their state. This is the usual way that  PCRE  is
+       the  stack  to remember their state. This is the usual way that PCRE is
        compiled. The output is zero if PCRE was compiled to use blocks of data
-       on the  heap  instead  of  recursive  function  calls.  In  this  case,
-       pcre_stack_malloc  and  pcre_stack_free  are  called  to  manage memory
+       on  the  heap  instead  of  recursive  function  calls.  In  this case,
+       pcre_stack_malloc and  pcre_stack_free  are  called  to  manage  memory
        blocks on the heap, thus avoiding the use of the stack.



@@ -1994,67 +2010,67 @@

        Either of the functions pcre_compile() or pcre_compile2() can be called
        to compile a pattern into an internal form. The only difference between
-       the two interfaces is that pcre_compile2() has an additional  argument,
-       errorcodeptr,  via  which  a  numerical  error code can be returned. To
-       avoid too much repetition, we refer just to pcre_compile()  below,  but
+       the  two interfaces is that pcre_compile2() has an additional argument,
+       errorcodeptr, via which a numerical error  code  can  be  returned.  To
+       avoid  too  much repetition, we refer just to pcre_compile() below, but
        the information applies equally to pcre_compile2().


        The pattern is a C string terminated by a binary zero, and is passed in
-       the pattern argument. A pointer to a single block  of  memory  that  is
-       obtained  via  pcre_malloc is returned. This contains the compiled code
+       the  pattern  argument.  A  pointer to a single block of memory that is
+       obtained via pcre_malloc is returned. This contains the  compiled  code
        and related data. The pcre type is defined for the returned block; this
        is a typedef for a structure whose contents are not externally defined.
        It is up to the caller to free the memory (via pcre_free) when it is no
        longer required.


-       Although  the compiled code of a PCRE regex is relocatable, that is, it
+       Although the compiled code of a PCRE regex is relocatable, that is,  it
        does not depend on memory location, the complete pcre data block is not
-       fully  relocatable, because it may contain a copy of the tableptr argu-
+       fully relocatable, because it may contain a copy of the tableptr  argu-
        ment, which is an address (see below).


        The options argument contains various bit settings that affect the com-
-       pilation.  It  should be zero if no options are required. The available
-       options are described below. Some of them (in  particular,  those  that
-       are  compatible with Perl, but some others as well) can also be set and
-       unset from within the pattern (see  the  detailed  description  in  the
-       pcrepattern  documentation). For those options that can be different in
-       different parts of the pattern, the contents of  the  options  argument
+       pilation. It should be zero if no options are required.  The  available
+       options  are  described  below. Some of them (in particular, those that
+       are compatible with Perl, but some others as well) can also be set  and
+       unset  from  within  the  pattern  (see the detailed description in the
+       pcrepattern documentation). For those options that can be different  in
+       different  parts  of  the pattern, the contents of the options argument
        specifies their settings at the start of compilation and execution. The
-       PCRE_ANCHORED, PCRE_BSR_xxx, PCRE_NEWLINE_xxx, PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK,  and
-       PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE  options  can  be set at the time of matching as
+       PCRE_ANCHORED,  PCRE_BSR_xxx, PCRE_NEWLINE_xxx, PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK, and
+       PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE options can be set at the time  of  matching  as
        well as at compile time.


        If errptr is NULL, pcre_compile() returns NULL immediately.  Otherwise,
-       if  compilation  of  a  pattern fails, pcre_compile() returns NULL, and
+       if compilation of a pattern fails,  pcre_compile()  returns  NULL,  and
        sets the variable pointed to by errptr to point to a textual error mes-
        sage. This is a static string that is part of the library. You must not
-       try to free it. Normally, the offset from the start of the  pattern  to
+       try  to  free it. Normally, the offset from the start of the pattern to
        the data unit that was being processed when the error was discovered is
-       placed in the variable pointed to by erroffset, which must not be  NULL
-       (if  it is, an immediate error is given). However, for an invalid UTF-8
-       or UTF-16 string, the offset is that of the  first  data  unit  of  the
+       placed  in the variable pointed to by erroffset, which must not be NULL
+       (if it is, an immediate error is given). However, for an invalid  UTF-8
+       or  UTF-16  string,  the  offset  is that of the first data unit of the
        failing character.


-       Some  errors are not detected until the whole pattern has been scanned;
-       in these cases, the offset passed back is the length  of  the  pattern.
-       Note  that  the  offset is in data units, not characters, even in a UTF
+       Some errors are not detected until the whole pattern has been  scanned;
+       in  these  cases,  the offset passed back is the length of the pattern.
+       Note that the offset is in data units, not characters, even  in  a  UTF
        mode. It may sometimes point into the middle of a UTF-8 or UTF-16 char-
        acter.


-       If  pcre_compile2()  is  used instead of pcre_compile(), and the error-
-       codeptr argument is not NULL, a non-zero error code number is  returned
-       via  this argument in the event of an error. This is in addition to the
+       If pcre_compile2() is used instead of pcre_compile(),  and  the  error-
+       codeptr  argument is not NULL, a non-zero error code number is returned
+       via this argument in the event of an error. This is in addition to  the
        textual error message. Error codes and messages are listed below.


-       If the final argument, tableptr, is NULL, PCRE uses a  default  set  of
-       character  tables  that  are  built  when  PCRE  is compiled, using the
-       default C locale. Otherwise, tableptr must be an address  that  is  the
-       result  of  a  call to pcre_maketables(). This value is stored with the
-       compiled pattern, and used again by pcre_exec(), unless  another  table
-       pointer is passed to it. For more discussion, see the section on locale
-       support below.
+       If  the  final  argument, tableptr, is NULL, PCRE uses a default set of
+       character tables that are  built  when  PCRE  is  compiled,  using  the
+       default  C  locale.  Otherwise, tableptr must be an address that is the
+       result of a call to pcre_maketables(). This value is  stored  with  the
+       compiled  pattern,  and  used  again by pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec()
+       when the pattern is matched. For more discussion, see  the  section  on
+       locale support below.


-       This code fragment shows a typical straightforward  call  to  pcre_com-
+       This  code  fragment  shows a typical straightforward call to pcre_com-
        pile():


          pcre *re;
@@ -2067,171 +2083,181 @@
            &erroffset,       /* for error offset */
            NULL);            /* use default character tables */


-       The  following  names  for option bits are defined in the pcre.h header
+       The following names for option bits are defined in  the  pcre.h  header
        file:


          PCRE_ANCHORED


        If this bit is set, the pattern is forced to be "anchored", that is, it
-       is  constrained to match only at the first matching point in the string
-       that is being searched (the "subject string"). This effect can also  be
-       achieved  by appropriate constructs in the pattern itself, which is the
+       is constrained to match only at the first matching point in the  string
+       that  is being searched (the "subject string"). This effect can also be
+       achieved by appropriate constructs in the pattern itself, which is  the
        only way to do it in Perl.


          PCRE_AUTO_CALLOUT


        If this bit is set, pcre_compile() automatically inserts callout items,
-       all  with  number  255, before each pattern item. For discussion of the
+       all with number 255, before each pattern item. For  discussion  of  the
        callout facility, see the pcrecallout documentation.


          PCRE_BSR_ANYCRLF
          PCRE_BSR_UNICODE


        These options (which are mutually exclusive) control what the \R escape
-       sequence  matches.  The choice is either to match only CR, LF, or CRLF,
+       sequence matches. The choice is either to match only CR, LF,  or  CRLF,
        or to match any Unicode newline sequence. The default is specified when
        PCRE is built. It can be overridden from within the pattern, or by set-
        ting an option when a compiled pattern is matched.


          PCRE_CASELESS


-       If this bit is set, letters in the pattern match both upper  and  lower
-       case  letters.  It  is  equivalent  to  Perl's /i option, and it can be
-       changed within a pattern by a (?i) option setting. In UTF-8 mode,  PCRE
-       always  understands the concept of case for characters whose values are
-       less than 128, so caseless matching is always possible. For  characters
-       with  higher  values,  the concept of case is supported if PCRE is com-
-       piled with Unicode property support, but not otherwise. If you want  to
-       use  caseless  matching  for  characters 128 and above, you must ensure
-       that PCRE is compiled with Unicode property support  as  well  as  with
+       If  this  bit is set, letters in the pattern match both upper and lower
+       case letters. It is equivalent to Perl's  /i  option,  and  it  can  be
+       changed  within a pattern by a (?i) option setting. In UTF-8 mode, PCRE
+       always understands the concept of case for characters whose values  are
+       less  than 128, so caseless matching is always possible. For characters
+       with higher values, the concept of case is supported if  PCRE  is  com-
+       piled  with Unicode property support, but not otherwise. If you want to
+       use caseless matching for characters 128 and  above,  you  must  ensure
+       that  PCRE  is  compiled  with Unicode property support as well as with
        UTF-8 support.


          PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY


-       If  this bit is set, a dollar metacharacter in the pattern matches only
-       at the end of the subject string. Without this option,  a  dollar  also
-       matches  immediately before a newline at the end of the string (but not
-       before any other newlines). The PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY option  is  ignored
-       if  PCRE_MULTILINE  is  set.   There is no equivalent to this option in
+       If this bit is set, a dollar metacharacter in the pattern matches  only
+       at  the  end  of the subject string. Without this option, a dollar also
+       matches immediately before a newline at the end of the string (but  not
+       before  any  other newlines). The PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY option is ignored
+       if PCRE_MULTILINE is set.  There is no equivalent  to  this  option  in
        Perl, and no way to set it within a pattern.


          PCRE_DOTALL


-       If this bit is set, a dot metacharacter in the pattern matches a  char-
+       If  this bit is set, a dot metacharacter in the pattern matches a char-
        acter of any value, including one that indicates a newline. However, it
-       only ever matches one character, even if newlines are  coded  as  CRLF.
-       Without  this option, a dot does not match when the current position is
+       only  ever  matches  one character, even if newlines are coded as CRLF.
+       Without this option, a dot does not match when the current position  is
        at a newline. This option is equivalent to Perl's /s option, and it can
-       be  changed within a pattern by a (?s) option setting. A negative class
+       be changed within a pattern by a (?s) option setting. A negative  class
        such as [^a] always matches newline characters, independent of the set-
        ting of this option.


          PCRE_DUPNAMES


-       If  this  bit is set, names used to identify capturing subpatterns need
+       If this bit is set, names used to identify capturing  subpatterns  need
        not be unique. This can be helpful for certain types of pattern when it
-       is  known  that  only  one instance of the named subpattern can ever be
-       matched. There are more details of named subpatterns  below;  see  also
+       is known that only one instance of the named  subpattern  can  ever  be
+       matched.  There  are  more details of named subpatterns below; see also
        the pcrepattern documentation.


          PCRE_EXTENDED


-       If  this  bit  is  set,  white space data characters in the pattern are
-       totally ignored except when escaped or inside a character class.  White
-       space does not include the VT character (code 11). In addition, charac-
-       ters between an unescaped # outside a character class and the next new-
-       line,  inclusive,  are  also  ignored.  This is equivalent to Perl's /x
-       option, and it can be changed within a pattern by a  (?x)  option  set-
-       ting.
+       If this bit is set, most white space  characters  in  the  pattern  are
+       totally  ignored  except when escaped or inside a character class. How-
+       ever, white space is not allowed within  sequences  such  as  (?>  that
+       introduce  various  parenthesized  subpatterns,  nor within a numerical
+       quantifier such as {1,3}.  However, ignorable white space is  permitted
+       between an item and a following quantifier and between a quantifier and
+       a following + that indicates possessiveness.


-       Which  characters  are  interpreted  as  newlines  is controlled by the
-       options passed to pcre_compile() or by a special sequence at the  start
-       of  the  pattern, as described in the section entitled "Newline conven-
+       White space did not used to include the VT character (code 11), because
+       Perl did not treat this character as white space. However, Perl changed
+       at release 5.18, so PCRE followed  at  release  8.34,  and  VT  is  now
+       treated as white space.
+
+       PCRE_EXTENDED  also  causes characters between an unescaped # outside a
+       character class  and  the  next  newline,  inclusive,  to  be  ignored.
+       PCRE_EXTENDED  is equivalent to Perl's /x option, and it can be changed
+       within a pattern by a (?x) option setting.
+
+       Which characters are interpreted  as  newlines  is  controlled  by  the
+       options  passed to pcre_compile() or by a special sequence at the start
+       of the pattern, as described in the section entitled  "Newline  conven-
        tions" in the pcrepattern documentation. Note that the end of this type
-       of  comment  is  a  literal  newline  sequence  in  the pattern; escape
+       of comment is  a  literal  newline  sequence  in  the  pattern;  escape
        sequences that happen to represent a newline do not count.


-       This option makes it possible to include  comments  inside  complicated
-       patterns.   Note,  however,  that this applies only to data characters.
-       White space  characters  may  never  appear  within  special  character
+       This  option  makes  it possible to include comments inside complicated
+       patterns.  Note, however, that this applies only  to  data  characters.
+       White  space  characters  may  never  appear  within  special character
        sequences in a pattern, for example within the sequence (?( that intro-
        duces a conditional subpattern.


          PCRE_EXTRA


-       This option was invented in order to turn on  additional  functionality
-       of  PCRE  that  is  incompatible with Perl, but it is currently of very
-       little use. When set, any backslash in a pattern that is followed by  a
-       letter  that  has  no  special  meaning causes an error, thus reserving
-       these combinations for future expansion. By  default,  as  in  Perl,  a
-       backslash  followed by a letter with no special meaning is treated as a
+       This  option  was invented in order to turn on additional functionality
+       of PCRE that is incompatible with Perl, but it  is  currently  of  very
+       little  use. When set, any backslash in a pattern that is followed by a
+       letter that has no special meaning  causes  an  error,  thus  reserving
+       these  combinations  for  future  expansion.  By default, as in Perl, a
+       backslash followed by a letter with no special meaning is treated as  a
        literal. (Perl can, however, be persuaded to give an error for this, by
-       running  it with the -w option.) There are at present no other features
-       controlled by this option. It can also be set by a (?X) option  setting
+       running it with the -w option.) There are at present no other  features
+       controlled  by this option. It can also be set by a (?X) option setting
        within a pattern.


          PCRE_FIRSTLINE


-       If  this  option  is  set,  an  unanchored pattern is required to match
-       before or at the first  newline  in  the  subject  string,  though  the
+       If this option is set, an  unanchored  pattern  is  required  to  match
+       before  or  at  the  first  newline  in  the subject string, though the
        matched text may continue over the newline.


          PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT


        If this option is set, PCRE's behaviour is changed in some ways so that
-       it is compatible with JavaScript rather than Perl. The changes  are  as
+       it  is  compatible with JavaScript rather than Perl. The changes are as
        follows:


-       (1)  A  lone  closing square bracket in a pattern causes a compile-time
-       error, because this is illegal in JavaScript (by default it is  treated
+       (1) A lone closing square bracket in a pattern  causes  a  compile-time
+       error,  because this is illegal in JavaScript (by default it is treated
        as a data character). Thus, the pattern AB]CD becomes illegal when this
        option is set.


-       (2) At run time, a back reference to an unset subpattern group  matches
-       an  empty  string (by default this causes the current matching alterna-
-       tive to fail). A pattern such as (\1)(a) succeeds when this  option  is
-       set  (assuming  it can find an "a" in the subject), whereas it fails by
+       (2)  At run time, a back reference to an unset subpattern group matches
+       an empty string (by default this causes the current  matching  alterna-
+       tive  to  fail). A pattern such as (\1)(a) succeeds when this option is
+       set (assuming it can find an "a" in the subject), whereas it  fails  by
        default, for Perl compatibility.


        (3) \U matches an upper case "U" character; by default \U causes a com-
        pile time error (Perl uses \U to upper case subsequent characters).


        (4) \u matches a lower case "u" character unless it is followed by four
-       hexadecimal digits, in which case the hexadecimal  number  defines  the
-       code  point  to match. By default, \u causes a compile time error (Perl
+       hexadecimal  digits,  in  which case the hexadecimal number defines the
+       code point to match. By default, \u causes a compile time  error  (Perl
        uses it to upper case the following character).


-       (5) \x matches a lower case "x" character unless it is followed by  two
-       hexadecimal  digits,  in  which case the hexadecimal number defines the
-       code point to match. By default, as in Perl, a  hexadecimal  number  is
+       (5)  \x matches a lower case "x" character unless it is followed by two
+       hexadecimal digits, in which case the hexadecimal  number  defines  the
+       code  point  to  match. By default, as in Perl, a hexadecimal number is
        always expected after \x, but it may have zero, one, or two digits (so,
        for example, \xz matches a binary zero character followed by z).


          PCRE_MULTILINE


-       By default, for the purposes of matching "start of line"  and  "end  of
+       By  default,  for  the purposes of matching "start of line" and "end of
        line", PCRE treats the subject string as consisting of a single line of
-       characters, even if it actually contains newlines. The "start of  line"
+       characters,  even if it actually contains newlines. The "start of line"
        metacharacter (^) matches only at the start of the string, and the "end
-       of line" metacharacter ($) matches only at the end of  the  string,  or
-       before  a terminating newline (except when PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY is set).
-       Note, however, that unless PCRE_DOTALL  is  set,  the  "any  character"
-       metacharacter  (.)  does not match at a newline. This behaviour (for ^,
+       of  line"  metacharacter  ($) matches only at the end of the string, or
+       before a terminating newline (except when PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY is  set).
+       Note,  however,  that  unless  PCRE_DOTALL  is set, the "any character"
+       metacharacter (.) does not match at a newline. This behaviour  (for  ^,
        $, and dot) is the same as Perl.


-       When PCRE_MULTILINE it is set, the "start of line" and  "end  of  line"
-       constructs  match  immediately following or immediately before internal
-       newlines in the subject string, respectively, as well as  at  the  very
-       start  and  end.  This is equivalent to Perl's /m option, and it can be
+       When  PCRE_MULTILINE  it  is set, the "start of line" and "end of line"
+       constructs match immediately following or immediately  before  internal
+       newlines  in  the  subject string, respectively, as well as at the very
+       start and end. This is equivalent to Perl's /m option, and  it  can  be
        changed within a pattern by a (?m) option setting. If there are no new-
-       lines  in  a  subject string, or no occurrences of ^ or $ in a pattern,
+       lines in a subject string, or no occurrences of ^ or $  in  a  pattern,
        setting PCRE_MULTILINE has no effect.


          PCRE_NEVER_UTF


        This option locks out interpretation of the pattern as UTF-8 (or UTF-16
-       or  UTF-32  in the 16-bit and 32-bit libraries). In particular, it pre-
-       vents the creator of the pattern from switching to  UTF  interpretation
+       or UTF-32 in the 16-bit and 32-bit libraries). In particular,  it  pre-
+       vents  the  creator of the pattern from switching to UTF interpretation
        by starting the pattern with (*UTF). This may be useful in applications
        that  process  patterns  from  external  sources.  The  combination  of
        PCRE_UTF8 and PCRE_NEVER_UTF also causes an error.
@@ -2242,41 +2268,41 @@
          PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF
          PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY


-       These  options  override the default newline definition that was chosen
-       when PCRE was built. Setting the first or the second specifies  that  a
-       newline  is  indicated  by a single character (CR or LF, respectively).
-       Setting PCRE_NEWLINE_CRLF specifies that a newline is indicated by  the
-       two-character  CRLF  sequence.  Setting  PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF specifies
+       These options override the default newline definition that  was  chosen
+       when  PCRE  was built. Setting the first or the second specifies that a
+       newline is indicated by a single character (CR  or  LF,  respectively).
+       Setting  PCRE_NEWLINE_CRLF specifies that a newline is indicated by the
+       two-character CRLF  sequence.  Setting  PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF  specifies
        that any of the three preceding sequences should be recognized. Setting
-       PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY  specifies that any Unicode newline sequence should be
+       PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY specifies that any Unicode newline sequence should  be
        recognized.


-       In an ASCII/Unicode environment, the Unicode newline sequences are  the
-       three  just  mentioned,  plus  the  single characters VT (vertical tab,
+       In  an ASCII/Unicode environment, the Unicode newline sequences are the
+       three just mentioned, plus the  single  characters  VT  (vertical  tab,
        U+000B), FF (form feed, U+000C), NEL (next line, U+0085), LS (line sep-
-       arator,  U+2028),  and  PS (paragraph separator, U+2029). For the 8-bit
+       arator, U+2028), and PS (paragraph separator, U+2029).  For  the  8-bit
        library, the last two are recognized only in UTF-8 mode.


-       When PCRE is compiled to run in an EBCDIC (mainframe) environment,  the
+       When  PCRE is compiled to run in an EBCDIC (mainframe) environment, the
        code for CR is 0x0d, the same as ASCII. However, the character code for
-       LF is normally 0x15, though in some EBCDIC environments 0x25  is  used.
-       Whichever  of  these  is  not LF is made to correspond to Unicode's NEL
-       character. EBCDIC codes are all less than 256. For  more  details,  see
+       LF  is  normally 0x15, though in some EBCDIC environments 0x25 is used.
+       Whichever of these is not LF is made to  correspond  to  Unicode's  NEL
+       character.  EBCDIC  codes  are all less than 256. For more details, see
        the pcrebuild documentation.


-       The  newline  setting  in  the  options  word  uses three bits that are
+       The newline setting in the  options  word  uses  three  bits  that  are
        treated as a number, giving eight possibilities. Currently only six are
-       used  (default  plus the five values above). This means that if you set
-       more than one newline option, the combination may or may not be  sensi-
+       used (default plus the five values above). This means that if  you  set
+       more  than one newline option, the combination may or may not be sensi-
        ble. For example, PCRE_NEWLINE_CR with PCRE_NEWLINE_LF is equivalent to
-       PCRE_NEWLINE_CRLF, but other combinations may yield unused numbers  and
+       PCRE_NEWLINE_CRLF,  but other combinations may yield unused numbers and
        cause an error.


-       The  only  time  that a line break in a pattern is specially recognized
-       when compiling is when PCRE_EXTENDED is set. CR and LF are white  space
-       characters,  and so are ignored in this mode. Also, an unescaped # out-
-       side a character class indicates a comment that lasts until  after  the
-       next  line break sequence. In other circumstances, line break sequences
+       The only time that a line break in a pattern  is  specially  recognized
+       when  compiling is when PCRE_EXTENDED is set. CR and LF are white space
+       characters, and so are ignored in this mode. Also, an unescaped #  out-
+       side  a  character class indicates a comment that lasts until after the
+       next line break sequence. In other circumstances, line break  sequences
        in patterns are treated as literal data.


        The newline option that is set at compile time becomes the default that
@@ -2285,69 +2311,79 @@
          PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE


        If this option is set, it disables the use of numbered capturing paren-
-       theses in the pattern. Any opening parenthesis that is not followed  by
-       ?  behaves as if it were followed by ?: but named parentheses can still
-       be used for capturing (and they acquire  numbers  in  the  usual  way).
+       theses  in the pattern. Any opening parenthesis that is not followed by
+       ? behaves as if it were followed by ?: but named parentheses can  still
+       be  used  for  capturing  (and  they acquire numbers in the usual way).
        There is no equivalent of this option in Perl.


+         PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS
+
+       If this option is set, it disables "auto-possessification". This is  an
+       optimization  that,  for example, turns a+b into a++b in order to avoid
+       backtracks into a+ that can never be successful. However,  if  callouts
+       are  in  use,  auto-possessification  means that some of them are never
+       taken. You can set this option if you want the matching functions to do
+       a  full  unoptimized  search and run all the callouts, but it is mainly
+       provided for testing purposes.
+
          PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE


-       This  is an option that acts at matching time; that is, it is really an
-       option for pcre_exec() or pcre_dfa_exec(). If  it  is  set  at  compile
-       time,  it is remembered with the compiled pattern and assumed at match-
-       ing time. This is necessary if you want to use JIT  execution,  because
-       the  JIT  compiler needs to know whether or not this option is set. For
+       This is an option that acts at matching time; that is, it is really  an
+       option  for  pcre_exec()  or  pcre_dfa_exec().  If it is set at compile
+       time, it is remembered with the compiled pattern and assumed at  match-
+       ing  time.  This is necessary if you want to use JIT execution, because
+       the JIT compiler needs to know whether or not this option is  set.  For
        details see the discussion of PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE below.


          PCRE_UCP


-       This option changes the way PCRE processes \B, \b, \D, \d, \S, \s,  \W,
-       \w,  and  some  of  the POSIX character classes. By default, only ASCII
-       characters are recognized, but if PCRE_UCP is set,  Unicode  properties
-       are  used instead to classify characters. More details are given in the
-       section on generic character types in the pcrepattern page. If you  set
-       PCRE_UCP,  matching  one of the items it affects takes much longer. The
-       option is available only if PCRE has been compiled with  Unicode  prop-
+       This  option changes the way PCRE processes \B, \b, \D, \d, \S, \s, \W,
+       \w, and some of the POSIX character classes.  By  default,  only  ASCII
+       characters  are  recognized, but if PCRE_UCP is set, Unicode properties
+       are used instead to classify characters. More details are given in  the
+       section  on generic character types in the pcrepattern page. If you set
+       PCRE_UCP, matching one of the items it affects takes much  longer.  The
+       option  is  available only if PCRE has been compiled with Unicode prop-
        erty support.


          PCRE_UNGREEDY


-       This  option  inverts  the "greediness" of the quantifiers so that they
-       are not greedy by default, but become greedy if followed by "?". It  is
-       not  compatible  with Perl. It can also be set by a (?U) option setting
+       This option inverts the "greediness" of the quantifiers  so  that  they
+       are  not greedy by default, but become greedy if followed by "?". It is
+       not compatible with Perl. It can also be set by a (?U)  option  setting
        within the pattern.


          PCRE_UTF8


-       This option causes PCRE to regard both the pattern and the  subject  as
+       This  option  causes PCRE to regard both the pattern and the subject as
        strings of UTF-8 characters instead of single-byte strings. However, it
-       is available only when PCRE is built to include UTF  support.  If  not,
-       the  use  of  this option provokes an error. Details of how this option
+       is  available  only  when PCRE is built to include UTF support. If not,
+       the use of this option provokes an error. Details of  how  this  option
        changes the behaviour of PCRE are given in the pcreunicode page.


          PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK


        When PCRE_UTF8 is set, the validity of the pattern as a UTF-8 string is
-       automatically  checked.  There  is  a  discussion about the validity of
-       UTF-8 strings in the pcreunicode page. If an invalid UTF-8 sequence  is
-       found,  pcre_compile()  returns an error. If you already know that your
-       pattern is valid, and you want to skip this check for performance  rea-
-       sons,  you  can set the PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK option.  When it is set, the
+       automatically checked. There is a  discussion  about  the  validity  of
+       UTF-8  strings in the pcreunicode page. If an invalid UTF-8 sequence is
+       found, pcre_compile() returns an error. If you already know  that  your
+       pattern  is valid, and you want to skip this check for performance rea-
+       sons, you can set the PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK option.  When it is  set,  the
        effect of passing an invalid UTF-8 string as a pattern is undefined. It
-       may  cause  your  program  to  crash. Note that this option can also be
-       passed to pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec(),  to  suppress  the  validity
-       checking  of  subject strings only. If the same string is being matched
-       many times, the option can be safely set for the second and  subsequent
+       may cause your program to crash or loop. Note that this option can also
+       be  passed to pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec(), to suppress the validity
+       checking of subject strings only. If the same string is  being  matched
+       many  times, the option can be safely set for the second and subsequent
        matchings to improve performance.



COMPILATION ERROR CODES

-       The  following  table  lists  the  error  codes than may be returned by
-       pcre_compile2(), along with the error messages that may be returned  by
-       both  compiling  functions.  Note  that error messages are always 8-bit
-       ASCII strings, even in 16-bit or 32-bit mode. As  PCRE  has  developed,
-       some  error codes have fallen out of use. To avoid confusion, they have
+       The following table lists the error  codes  than  may  be  returned  by
+       pcre_compile2(),  along with the error messages that may be returned by
+       both compiling functions. Note that error  messages  are  always  8-bit
+       ASCII  strings,  even  in 16-bit or 32-bit mode. As PCRE has developed,
+       some error codes have fallen out of use. To avoid confusion, they  have
        not been re-used.


           0  no error
@@ -2384,7 +2420,7 @@
          31  POSIX collating elements are not supported
          32  this version of PCRE is compiled without UTF support
          33  [this code is not in use]
-         34  character value in \x{...} sequence is too large
+         34  character value in \x{} or \o{} is too large
          35  invalid condition (?(0)
          36  \C not allowed in lookbehind assertion
          37  PCRE does not support \L, \l, \N{name}, \U, or \u
@@ -2432,8 +2468,14 @@
          75  name is too long in (*MARK), (*PRUNE), (*SKIP), or (*THEN)
          76  character value in \u.... sequence is too large
          77  invalid UTF-32 string (specifically UTF-32)
+         78  setting UTF is disabled by the application
+         79  non-hex character in \x{} (closing brace missing?)
+         80  non-octal character in \o{} (closing brace missing?)
+         81  missing opening brace after \o
+         82  parentheses are too deeply nested
+         83  invalid range in character class


-       The numbers 32 and 10000 in errors 48 and 49  are  defaults;  different
+       The  numbers  32  and 10000 in errors 48 and 49 are defaults; different
        values may be used if the limits were changed when PCRE was built.



@@ -2442,64 +2484,64 @@
        pcre_extra *pcre_study(const pcre *code, int options,
             const char **errptr);


-       If  a  compiled  pattern is going to be used several times, it is worth
+       If a compiled pattern is going to be used several times,  it  is  worth
        spending more time analyzing it in order to speed up the time taken for
-       matching.  The function pcre_study() takes a pointer to a compiled pat-
+       matching. The function pcre_study() takes a pointer to a compiled  pat-
        tern as its first argument. If studying the pattern produces additional
-       information  that  will  help speed up matching, pcre_study() returns a
-       pointer to a pcre_extra block, in which the study_data field points  to
+       information that will help speed up matching,  pcre_study()  returns  a
+       pointer  to a pcre_extra block, in which the study_data field points to
        the results of the study.


        The  returned  value  from  pcre_study()  can  be  passed  directly  to
-       pcre_exec() or pcre_dfa_exec(). However, a pcre_extra block  also  con-
-       tains  other  fields  that can be set by the caller before the block is
+       pcre_exec()  or  pcre_dfa_exec(). However, a pcre_extra block also con-
+       tains other fields that can be set by the caller before  the  block  is
        passed; these are described below in the section on matching a pattern.


-       If studying the  pattern  does  not  produce  any  useful  information,
-       pcre_study()  returns  NULL  by  default.  In that circumstance, if the
+       If  studying  the  pattern  does  not  produce  any useful information,
+       pcre_study() returns NULL by default.  In  that  circumstance,  if  the
        calling program wants to pass any of the other fields to pcre_exec() or
-       pcre_dfa_exec(),  it  must set up its own pcre_extra block. However, if
-       pcre_study() is called  with  the  PCRE_STUDY_EXTRA_NEEDED  option,  it
+       pcre_dfa_exec(), it must set up its own pcre_extra block.  However,  if
+       pcre_study()  is  called  with  the  PCRE_STUDY_EXTRA_NEEDED option, it
        returns a pcre_extra block even if studying did not find any additional
-       information. It may still return NULL, however, if an error  occurs  in
+       information.  It  may still return NULL, however, if an error occurs in
        pcre_study().


-       The  second  argument  of  pcre_study() contains option bits. There are
+       The second argument of pcre_study() contains  option  bits.  There  are
        three further options in addition to PCRE_STUDY_EXTRA_NEEDED:


          PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE
          PCRE_STUDY_JIT_PARTIAL_HARD_COMPILE
          PCRE_STUDY_JIT_PARTIAL_SOFT_COMPILE


-       If any of these are set, and the just-in-time  compiler  is  available,
-       the  pattern  is  further compiled into machine code that executes much
-       faster than the pcre_exec()  interpretive  matching  function.  If  the
-       just-in-time  compiler is not available, these options are ignored. All
+       If  any  of  these are set, and the just-in-time compiler is available,
+       the pattern is further compiled into machine code  that  executes  much
+       faster  than  the  pcre_exec()  interpretive  matching function. If the
+       just-in-time compiler is not available, these options are ignored.  All
        undefined bits in the options argument must be zero.


-       JIT compilation is a heavyweight optimization. It can  take  some  time
-       for  patterns  to  be analyzed, and for one-off matches and simple pat-
-       terns the benefit of faster execution might be offset by a much  slower
+       JIT  compilation  is  a heavyweight optimization. It can take some time
+       for patterns to be analyzed, and for one-off matches  and  simple  pat-
+       terns  the benefit of faster execution might be offset by a much slower
        study time.  Not all patterns can be optimized by the JIT compiler. For
-       those that cannot be handled, matching automatically falls back to  the
-       pcre_exec()  interpreter.  For more details, see the pcrejit documenta-
+       those  that cannot be handled, matching automatically falls back to the
+       pcre_exec() interpreter. For more details, see the  pcrejit  documenta-
        tion.


-       The third argument for pcre_study() is a pointer for an error  message.
-       If  studying  succeeds  (even  if no data is returned), the variable it
-       points to is set to NULL. Otherwise it is set to  point  to  a  textual
+       The  third argument for pcre_study() is a pointer for an error message.
+       If studying succeeds (even if no data is  returned),  the  variable  it
+       points  to  is  set  to NULL. Otherwise it is set to point to a textual
        error message. This is a static string that is part of the library. You
-       must not try to free it. You should test the  error  pointer  for  NULL
+       must  not  try  to  free it. You should test the error pointer for NULL
        after calling pcre_study(), to be sure that it has run successfully.


-       When  you are finished with a pattern, you can free the memory used for
+       When you are finished with a pattern, you can free the memory used  for
        the study data by calling pcre_free_study(). This function was added to
-       the  API  for  release  8.20. For earlier versions, the memory could be
-       freed with pcre_free(), just like the pattern itself. This  will  still
-       work  in  cases where JIT optimization is not used, but it is advisable
+       the API for release 8.20. For earlier versions,  the  memory  could  be
+       freed  with  pcre_free(), just like the pattern itself. This will still
+       work in cases where JIT optimization is not used, but it  is  advisable
        to change to the new function when convenient.


-       This is a typical way in which pcre_study() is used (except that  in  a
+       This  is  a typical way in which pcre_study() is used (except that in a
        real application there should be tests for errors):


          int rc;
@@ -2519,29 +2561,29 @@
        Studying a pattern does two things: first, a lower bound for the length
        of subject string that is needed to match the pattern is computed. This
        does not mean that there are any strings of that length that match, but
-       it does guarantee that no shorter strings match. The value is  used  to
+       it  does  guarantee that no shorter strings match. The value is used to
        avoid wasting time by trying to match strings that are shorter than the
-       lower bound. You can find out the value in a calling  program  via  the
+       lower  bound.  You  can find out the value in a calling program via the
        pcre_fullinfo() function.


        Studying a pattern is also useful for non-anchored patterns that do not
-       have a single fixed starting character. A bitmap of  possible  starting
-       bytes  is  created. This speeds up finding a position in the subject at
+       have  a  single fixed starting character. A bitmap of possible starting
+       bytes is created. This speeds up finding a position in the  subject  at
        which to start matching. (In 16-bit mode, the bitmap is used for 16-bit
-       values  less  than  256.  In 32-bit mode, the bitmap is used for 32-bit
+       values less than 256.  In 32-bit mode, the bitmap is  used  for  32-bit
        values less than 256.)


-       These two optimizations apply to both pcre_exec() and  pcre_dfa_exec(),
-       and  the  information  is also used by the JIT compiler.  The optimiza-
-       tions can be disabled by  setting  the  PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE  option.
-       You  might want to do this if your pattern contains callouts or (*MARK)
-       and you want to make use of these facilities in  cases  where  matching
+       These  two optimizations apply to both pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec(),
+       and the information is also used by the JIT  compiler.   The  optimiza-
+       tions  can  be  disabled  by setting the PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE option.
+       You might want to do this if your pattern contains callouts or  (*MARK)
+       and  you  want  to make use of these facilities in cases where matching
        fails.


-       PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE  can be specified at either compile time or exe-
-       cution  time.  However,  if   PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE   is   passed   to
+       PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE can be specified at either compile time or  exe-
+       cution   time.   However,   if   PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE  is  passed  to
        pcre_exec(), (that is, after any JIT compilation has happened) JIT exe-
-       cution is disabled. For JIT execution to work with  PCRE_NO_START_OPTI-
+       cution  is disabled. For JIT execution to work with PCRE_NO_START_OPTI-
        MIZE, the option must be set at compile time.


        There is a longer discussion of PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE below.
@@ -2549,18 +2591,21 @@


LOCALE SUPPORT

-       PCRE  handles  caseless matching, and determines whether characters are
-       letters, digits, or whatever, by reference to a set of tables,  indexed
-       by  character  value.  When running in UTF-8 mode, this applies only to
-       characters with codes less than 128. By  default,  higher-valued  codes
-       never match escapes such as \w or \d, but they can be tested with \p if
-       PCRE is built with Unicode character property  support.  Alternatively,
-       the  PCRE_UCP  option  can  be  set at compile time; this causes \w and
-       friends to use Unicode property support instead of built-in tables. The
-       use of locales with Unicode is discouraged. If you are handling charac-
-       ters with codes greater than 128, you should either use UTF-8 and  Uni-
-       code, or use locales, but not try to mix the two.
+       PCRE handles caseless matching, and determines whether  characters  are
+       letters,  digits, or whatever, by reference to a set of tables, indexed
+       by character code point. When running in UTF-8 mode, or in the  16-  or
+       32-bit libraries, this applies only to characters with code points less
+       than 256. By default, higher-valued code  points  never  match  escapes
+       such  as \w or \d. However, if PCRE is built with Unicode property sup-
+       port, all characters can be tested with \p and \P,  or,  alternatively,
+       the  PCRE_UCP option can be set when a pattern is compiled; this causes
+       \w and friends to use Unicode property support instead of the  built-in
+       tables.


+       The  use  of  locales  with Unicode is discouraged. If you are handling
+       characters with code points greater than 128,  you  should  either  use
+       Unicode support, or use locales, but not try to mix the two.
+
        PCRE  contains  an  internal set of tables that are used when the final
        argument of pcre_compile() is  NULL.  These  are  sufficient  for  many
        applications.  Normally, the internal tables recognize only ASCII char-
@@ -2575,10 +2620,10 @@


        External  tables  are  built by calling the pcre_maketables() function,
        which has no arguments, in the relevant locale. The result can then  be
-       passed  to  pcre_compile()  or  pcre_exec()  as often as necessary. For
-       example, to build and use tables that are appropriate  for  the  French
-       locale  (where  accented  characters  with  values greater than 128 are
-       treated as letters), the following code could be used:
+       passed  to  pcre_compile() as often as necessary. For example, to build
+       and use tables that  are  appropriate  for  the  French  locale  (where
+       accented  characters  with  values greater than 128 are treated as let-
+       ters), the following code could be used:


          setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "fr_FR");
          tables = pcre_maketables();
@@ -2594,15 +2639,19 @@


        The pointer that is passed to pcre_compile() is saved with the compiled
        pattern,  and the same tables are used via this pointer by pcre_study()
-       and normally also by pcre_exec(). Thus, by default, for any single pat-
+       and also by pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec(). Thus, for any single  pat-
        tern, compilation, studying and matching all happen in the same locale,
-       but different patterns can be compiled in different locales.
+       but different patterns can be processed in different locales.


        It is possible to pass a table pointer or NULL (indicating the  use  of
-       the  internal  tables)  to  pcre_exec(). Although not intended for this
-       purpose, this facility could be used to match a pattern in a  different
-       locale from the one in which it was compiled. Passing table pointers at
-       run time is discussed below in the section on matching a pattern.
+       the internal tables) to pcre_exec() or pcre_dfa_exec() (see the discus-
+       sion below in the section on matching a pattern). This facility is pro-
+       vided  for  use  with  pre-compiled  patterns  that have been saved and
+       reloaded.  Character tables are not saved with patterns, so if  a  non-
+       standard table was used at compile time, it must be provided again when
+       the reloaded pattern is matched. Attempting to  use  this  facility  to
+       match a pattern in a different locale from the one in which it was com-
+       piled is likely to lead to anomalous (usually incorrect) results.



 INFORMATION ABOUT A PATTERN
@@ -2743,77 +2792,83 @@
        /^a\dz\d/ the returned value is -1.


        Since for the 32-bit library using the non-UTF-32 mode,  this  function
-       is  unable to return the full 32-bit range of the character, this value
-       is   deprecated;   instead    the    PCRE_INFO_REQUIREDCHARFLAGS    and
+       is  unable to return the full 32-bit range of characters, this value is
+       deprecated;     instead     the     PCRE_INFO_REQUIREDCHARFLAGS     and
        PCRE_INFO_REQUIREDCHAR values should be used.


+         PCRE_INFO_MATCH_EMPTY
+
+       Return  1  if  the  pattern can match an empty string, otherwise 0. The
+       fourth argument should point to an int variable.
+
          PCRE_INFO_MATCHLIMIT


-       If  the  pattern  set  a  match  limit by including an item of the form
-       (*LIMIT_MATCH=nnnn) at the start, the value  is  returned.  The  fourth
-       argument  should  point to an unsigned 32-bit integer. If no such value
-       has  been  set,  the  call  to  pcre_fullinfo()   returns   the   error
+       If the pattern set a match limit by  including  an  item  of  the  form
+       (*LIMIT_MATCH=nnnn)  at  the  start,  the value is returned. The fourth
+       argument should point to an unsigned 32-bit integer. If no  such  value
+       has   been   set,   the  call  to  pcre_fullinfo()  returns  the  error
        PCRE_ERROR_UNSET.


          PCRE_INFO_MAXLOOKBEHIND


-       Return  the  number  of  characters  (NB not data units) in the longest
-       lookbehind assertion in the pattern. This information  is  useful  when
-       doing  multi-segment  matching  using  the partial matching facilities.
+       Return the number of characters (NB not  data  units)  in  the  longest
+       lookbehind  assertion  in  the pattern. This information is useful when
+       doing multi-segment matching using  the  partial  matching  facilities.
        Note that the simple assertions \b and \B require a one-character look-
-       behind.  \A  also  registers a one-character lookbehind, though it does
-       not actually inspect the previous character. This is to ensure that  at
+       behind. \A also registers a one-character lookbehind,  though  it  does
+       not  actually inspect the previous character. This is to ensure that at
        least one character from the old segment is retained when a new segment
        is processed. Otherwise, if there are no lookbehinds in the pattern, \A
        might match incorrectly at the start of a new segment.


          PCRE_INFO_MINLENGTH


-       If  the  pattern  was studied and a minimum length for matching subject
-       strings was computed, its value is  returned.  Otherwise  the  returned
+       If the pattern was studied and a minimum length  for  matching  subject
+       strings  was  computed,  its  value is returned. Otherwise the returned
        value is -1. The value is a number of characters, which in UTF mode may
-       be different from the number of data units. The fourth argument  should
-       point  to an int variable. A non-negative value is a lower bound to the
-       length of any matching string. There may not be  any  strings  of  that
-       length  that  do actually match, but every string that does match is at
+       be  different from the number of data units. The fourth argument should
+       point to an int variable. A non-negative value is a lower bound to  the
+       length  of  any  matching  string. There may not be any strings of that
+       length that do actually match, but every string that does match  is  at
        least that long.


          PCRE_INFO_NAMECOUNT
          PCRE_INFO_NAMEENTRYSIZE
          PCRE_INFO_NAMETABLE


-       PCRE supports the use of named as well as numbered capturing  parenthe-
-       ses.  The names are just an additional way of identifying the parenthe-
+       PCRE  supports the use of named as well as numbered capturing parenthe-
+       ses. The names are just an additional way of identifying the  parenthe-
        ses, which still acquire numbers. Several convenience functions such as
-       pcre_get_named_substring()  are  provided  for extracting captured sub-
-       strings by name. It is also possible to extract the data  directly,  by
-       first  converting  the  name to a number in order to access the correct
+       pcre_get_named_substring() are provided for  extracting  captured  sub-
+       strings  by  name. It is also possible to extract the data directly, by
+       first converting the name to a number in order to  access  the  correct
        pointers in the output vector (described with pcre_exec() below). To do
-       the  conversion,  you  need  to  use  the  name-to-number map, which is
+       the conversion, you need  to  use  the  name-to-number  map,  which  is
        described by these three values.


        The map consists of a number of fixed-size entries. PCRE_INFO_NAMECOUNT
        gives the number of entries, and PCRE_INFO_NAMEENTRYSIZE gives the size
-       of each entry; both of these  return  an  int  value.  The  entry  size
-       depends  on the length of the longest name. PCRE_INFO_NAMETABLE returns
+       of  each  entry;  both  of  these  return  an int value. The entry size
+       depends on the length of the longest name. PCRE_INFO_NAMETABLE  returns
        a pointer to the first entry of the table. This is a pointer to char in
        the 8-bit library, where the first two bytes of each entry are the num-
-       ber of the capturing parenthesis, most significant byte first.  In  the
-       16-bit  library,  the pointer points to 16-bit data units, the first of
-       which contains the parenthesis  number.  In  the  32-bit  library,  the
-       pointer  points  to  32-bit data units, the first of which contains the
-       parenthesis number. The rest of the entry is  the  corresponding  name,
+       ber  of  the capturing parenthesis, most significant byte first. In the
+       16-bit library, the pointer points to 16-bit data units, the  first  of
+       which  contains  the  parenthesis  number.  In  the 32-bit library, the
+       pointer points to 32-bit data units, the first of  which  contains  the
+       parenthesis  number.  The  rest of the entry is the corresponding name,
        zero terminated.


-       The  names are in alphabetical order. Duplicate names may appear if (?|
-       is used to create multiple groups with the same number, as described in
-       the  section  on  duplicate subpattern numbers in the pcrepattern page.
-       Duplicate names for subpatterns with different  numbers  are  permitted
-       only  if  PCRE_DUPNAMES  is  set. In all cases of duplicate names, they
-       appear in the table in the order in which they were found in  the  pat-
-       tern.  In  the  absence  of (?| this is the order of increasing number;
-       when (?| is used this is not necessarily the case because later subpat-
-       terns may have lower numbers.
+       The names are in alphabetical order. If (?| is used to create  multiple
+       groups  with  the same number, as described in the section on duplicate
+       subpattern numbers in the pcrepattern page, the groups may be given the
+       same  name,  but  there is only one entry in the table. Different names
+       for groups of the same number are not permitted.  Duplicate  names  for
+       subpatterns with different numbers are permitted, but only if PCRE_DUP-
+       NAMES is set. They appear in the table in the order in which they  were
+       found  in  the  pattern.  In  the  absence  of (?| this is the order of
+       increasing number; when (?| is used this is not  necessarily  the  case
+       because later subpatterns may have lower numbers.


        As  a  simple  example of the name/number table, consider the following
        pattern after compilation by the 8-bit library (assume PCRE_EXTENDED is
@@ -2923,27 +2978,15 @@


          PCRE_INFO_FIRSTCHARACTER


-       Return  the  fixed  first character value, if PCRE_INFO_FIRSTCHARACTER-
-       FLAGS returned 1; otherwise returns 0. The fourth argument should point
-       to an uint_t variable.
+       Return   the  fixed  first  character  value  in  the  situation  where
+       PCRE_INFO_FIRSTCHARACTERFLAGS returns 1; otherwise return 0. The fourth
+       argument should point to an uint_t variable.


        In  the 8-bit library, the value is always less than 256. In the 16-bit
        library the value can be up to 0xffff. In the 32-bit library in  UTF-32
        mode  the  value  can  be up to 0x10ffff, and up to 0xffffffff when not
        using UTF-32 mode.


-       If there is no fixed first value, and if either
-
-       (a) the pattern was compiled with the PCRE_MULTILINE option, and  every
-       branch starts with "^", or
-
-       (b) every branch of the pattern starts with ".*" and PCRE_DOTALL is not
-       set (if it were set, the pattern would be anchored),
-
-       -1 is returned, indicating that the pattern matches only at  the  start
-       of  a  subject string or after any newline within the string. Otherwise
-       -2 is returned. For anchored patterns, -2 is returned.
-
          PCRE_INFO_REQUIREDCHARFLAGS


        Returns 1 if there is a rightmost literal data unit that must exist  in
@@ -3132,17 +3175,21 @@
        The callout_data field is used in conjunction with the  "callout"  fea-
        ture, and is described in the pcrecallout documentation.


-       The  tables  field  is  used  to  pass  a  character  tables pointer to
-       pcre_exec(); this overrides the value that is stored with the  compiled
-       pattern.  A  non-NULL value is stored with the compiled pattern only if
-       custom tables were supplied to pcre_compile() via  its  tableptr  argu-
-       ment.  If NULL is passed to pcre_exec() using this mechanism, it forces
-       PCRE's internal tables to be used. This facility is  helpful  when  re-
-       using  patterns  that  have been saved after compiling with an external
-       set of tables, because the external tables  might  be  at  a  different
-       address  when  pcre_exec() is called. See the pcreprecompile documenta-
-       tion for a discussion of saving compiled patterns for later use.
+       The  tables field is provided for use with patterns that have been pre-
+       compiled using custom character tables, saved to disc or elsewhere, and
+       then  reloaded,  because the tables that were used to compile a pattern
+       are not saved with it. See the pcreprecompile documentation for a  dis-
+       cussion  of  saving  compiled patterns for later use. If NULL is passed
+       using this mechanism, it forces PCRE's internal tables to be used.


+       Warning: The tables that pcre_exec() uses must be  the  same  as  those
+       that  were used when the pattern was compiled. If this is not the case,
+       the behaviour of pcre_exec() is undefined. Therefore, when a pattern is
+       compiled  and  matched  in the same process, this field should never be
+       set. In this (the most common) case, the correct table pointer is auto-
+       matically  passed  with  the  compiled  pattern  from pcre_compile() to
+       pcre_exec().
+
        If PCRE_EXTRA_MARK is set in the flags field, the mark  field  must  be
        set  to point to a suitable variable. If the pattern contains any back-
        tracking control verbs such as (*MARK:NAME), and the execution ends  up
@@ -3350,7 +3397,7 @@
        points  to  the  start of a character (or the end of the subject). When
        PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK is set, the effect of passing an invalid string as a
        subject  or  an invalid value of startoffset is undefined. Your program
-       may crash.
+       may crash or loop.


          PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD
          PCRE_PARTIAL_SOFT
@@ -4130,55 +4177,64 @@
        filled  with  the  longest matches. Unlike pcre_exec(), pcre_dfa_exec()
        can use the entire ovector for returning matched strings.


+       NOTE: PCRE's "auto-possessification" optimization  usually  applies  to
+       character  repeats at the end of a pattern (as well as internally). For
+       example, the pattern "a\d+" is compiled as if it were  "a\d++"  because
+       there is no point even considering the possibility of backtracking into
+       the repeated digits. For DFA matching, this means that only one  possi-
+       ble  match  is  found.  If  you really do want multiple matches in such
+       cases,  either  use  an  ungreedy   repeat   ("a\d+?")   or   set   the
+       PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS option when compiling.
+
    Error returns from pcre_dfa_exec()


-       The pcre_dfa_exec() function returns a negative number when  it  fails.
-       Many  of  the  errors  are  the  same as for pcre_exec(), and these are
-       described above.  There are in addition the following errors  that  are
+       The  pcre_dfa_exec()  function returns a negative number when it fails.
+       Many of the errors are the same  as  for  pcre_exec(),  and  these  are
+       described  above.   There are in addition the following errors that are
        specific to pcre_dfa_exec():


          PCRE_ERROR_DFA_UITEM      (-16)


-       This  return is given if pcre_dfa_exec() encounters an item in the pat-
-       tern that it does not support, for instance, the use of \C  or  a  back
+       This return is given if pcre_dfa_exec() encounters an item in the  pat-
+       tern  that  it  does not support, for instance, the use of \C or a back
        reference.


          PCRE_ERROR_DFA_UCOND      (-17)


-       This  return  is  given  if pcre_dfa_exec() encounters a condition item
-       that uses a back reference for the condition, or a test  for  recursion
+       This return is given if pcre_dfa_exec()  encounters  a  condition  item
+       that  uses  a back reference for the condition, or a test for recursion
        in a specific group. These are not supported.


          PCRE_ERROR_DFA_UMLIMIT    (-18)


-       This  return  is given if pcre_dfa_exec() is called with an extra block
-       that contains a setting of  the  match_limit  or  match_limit_recursion
-       fields.  This  is  not  supported (these fields are meaningless for DFA
+       This return is given if pcre_dfa_exec() is called with an  extra  block
+       that  contains  a  setting  of the match_limit or match_limit_recursion
+       fields. This is not supported (these fields  are  meaningless  for  DFA
        matching).


          PCRE_ERROR_DFA_WSSIZE     (-19)


-       This return is given if  pcre_dfa_exec()  runs  out  of  space  in  the
+       This  return  is  given  if  pcre_dfa_exec()  runs  out of space in the
        workspace vector.


          PCRE_ERROR_DFA_RECURSE    (-20)


-       When  a  recursive subpattern is processed, the matching function calls
-       itself recursively, using private vectors for  ovector  and  workspace.
-       This  error  is  given  if  the output vector is not large enough. This
+       When a recursive subpattern is processed, the matching  function  calls
+       itself  recursively,  using  private vectors for ovector and workspace.
+       This error is given if the output vector  is  not  large  enough.  This
        should be extremely rare, as a vector of size 1000 is used.


          PCRE_ERROR_DFA_BADRESTART (-30)


-       When pcre_dfa_exec() is called with the PCRE_DFA_RESTART  option,  some
-       plausibility  checks  are  made on the contents of the workspace, which
-       should contain data about the previous partial match. If any  of  these
+       When  pcre_dfa_exec()  is called with the PCRE_DFA_RESTART option, some
+       plausibility checks are made on the contents of  the  workspace,  which
+       should  contain  data about the previous partial match. If any of these
        checks fail, this error is given.



SEE ALSO

-       pcre16(3),   pcre32(3),  pcrebuild(3),  pcrecallout(3),  pcrecpp(3)(3),
+       pcre16(3),  pcre32(3),  pcrebuild(3),  pcrecallout(3),   pcrecpp(3)(3),
        pcrematching(3), pcrepartial(3), pcreposix(3), pcreprecompile(3), pcre-
        sample(3), pcrestack(3).


@@ -4192,11 +4248,11 @@

REVISION

-       Last updated: 12 June 2013
+       Last updated: 12 November 2013
        Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCRECALLOUT(3)             Library Functions Manual             PCRECALLOUT(3)



@@ -4255,43 +4311,77 @@
        independent groups).


        Automatic callouts can be used for tracking  the  progress  of  pattern
-       matching.  The pcretest command has an option that sets automatic call-
-       outs; when it is used, the output indicates how the pattern is matched.
-       This  is useful information when you are trying to optimize the perfor-
-       mance of a particular pattern.
+       matching.   The pcretest program has a pattern qualifier (/C) that sets
+       automatic callouts; when it is used, the output indicates how the  pat-
+       tern  is  being matched. This is useful information when you are trying
+       to optimize the performance of a particular pattern.



MISSING CALLOUTS

-       You should be aware that, because of  optimizations  in  the  way  PCRE
-       matches  patterns  by  default,  callouts  sometimes do not happen. For
-       example, if the pattern is
+       You should be aware that, because of optimizations in the way PCRE com-
+       piles and matches patterns, callouts sometimes do not happen exactly as
+       you might expect.


+       At compile time, PCRE "auto-possessifies" repeated items when it  knows
+       that  what follows cannot be part of the repeat. For example, a+[bc] is
+       compiled as if it were a++[bc]. The pcretest output when  this  pattern
+       is  anchored  and  then  applied  with automatic callouts to the string
+       "aaaa" is:
+
+         --->aaaa
+          +0 ^        ^
+          +1 ^        a+
+          +3 ^   ^    [bc]
+         No match
+
+       This indicates that when matching [bc] fails, there is no  backtracking
+       into  a+  and  therefore the callouts that would be taken for the back-
+       tracks do not occur.  You can disable the  auto-possessify  feature  by
+       passing PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS to pcre_compile(), or starting the pattern
+       with (*NO_AUTO_POSSESS). If this is done  in  pcretest  (using  the  /O
+       qualifier), the output changes to this:
+
+         --->aaaa
+          +0 ^        ^
+          +1 ^        a+
+          +3 ^   ^    [bc]
+          +3 ^  ^     [bc]
+          +3 ^ ^      [bc]
+          +3 ^^       [bc]
+         No match
+
+       This time, when matching [bc] fails, the matcher backtracks into a+ and
+       tries again, repeatedly, until a+ itself fails.
+
+       Other optimizations that provide fast "no match"  results  also  affect
+       callouts.  For example, if the pattern is
+
          ab(?C4)cd


        PCRE knows that any matching string must contain the letter "d". If the
-       subject  string  is "abyz", the lack of "d" means that matching doesn't
-       ever start, and the callout is never  reached.  However,  with  "abyd",
+       subject string is "abyz", the lack of "d" means that  matching  doesn't
+       ever  start,  and  the  callout is never reached. However, with "abyd",
        though the result is still no match, the callout is obeyed.


-       If  the pattern is studied, PCRE knows the minimum length of a matching
-       string, and will immediately give a "no match" return without  actually
-       running  a  match if the subject is not long enough, or, for unanchored
+       If the pattern is studied, PCRE knows the minimum length of a  matching
+       string,  and will immediately give a "no match" return without actually
+       running a match if the subject is not long enough, or,  for  unanchored
        patterns, if it has been scanned far enough.


-       You can disable these optimizations by passing the  PCRE_NO_START_OPTI-
-       MIZE  option  to the matching function, or by starting the pattern with
-       (*NO_START_OPT). This slows down the matching process, but does  ensure
+       You  can disable these optimizations by passing the PCRE_NO_START_OPTI-
+       MIZE option to the matching function, or by starting the  pattern  with
+       (*NO_START_OPT).  This slows down the matching process, but does ensure
        that callouts such as the example above are obeyed.



THE CALLOUT INTERFACE

-       During  matching, when PCRE reaches a callout point, the external func-
+       During matching, when PCRE reaches a callout point, the external  func-
        tion defined by pcre_callout or pcre[16|32]_callout is called (if it is
-       set).  This  applies to both normal and DFA matching. The only argument
-       to  the  callout  function  is  a  pointer   to   a   pcre_callout   or
-       pcre[16|32]_callout  block.   These  structures  contains the following
+       set). This applies to both normal and DFA matching. The  only  argument
+       to   the   callout   function   is  a  pointer  to  a  pcre_callout  or
+       pcre[16|32]_callout block.  These  structures  contains  the  following
        fields:


          int           version;
@@ -4312,92 +4402,92 @@
          const PCRE_UCHAR16  *mark;       (16-bit version)
          const PCRE_UCHAR32  *mark;       (32-bit version)


-       The version field is an integer containing the version  number  of  the
-       block  format. The initial version was 0; the current version is 2. The
-       version number will change again in future  if  additional  fields  are
+       The  version  field  is an integer containing the version number of the
+       block format. The initial version was 0; the current version is 2.  The
+       version  number  will  change  again in future if additional fields are
        added, but the intention is never to remove any of the existing fields.


-       The  callout_number  field  contains the number of the callout, as com-
-       piled into the pattern (that is, the number after ?C for  manual  call-
+       The callout_number field contains the number of the  callout,  as  com-
+       piled  into  the pattern (that is, the number after ?C for manual call-
        outs, and 255 for automatically generated callouts).


-       The  offset_vector field is a pointer to the vector of offsets that was
-       passed by the caller to the  matching  function.  When  pcre_exec()  or
-       pcre[16|32]_exec()  is used, the contents can be inspected, in order to
-       extract substrings that have been matched so far, in the  same  way  as
-       for  extracting  substrings  after  a  match has completed. For the DFA
+       The offset_vector field is a pointer to the vector of offsets that  was
+       passed  by  the  caller  to  the matching function. When pcre_exec() or
+       pcre[16|32]_exec() is used, the contents can be inspected, in order  to
+       extract  substrings  that  have been matched so far, in the same way as
+       for extracting substrings after a match  has  completed.  For  the  DFA
        matching functions, this field is not useful.


        The subject and subject_length fields contain copies of the values that
        were passed to the matching function.


-       The  start_match  field normally contains the offset within the subject
-       at which the current match attempt  started.  However,  if  the  escape
-       sequence  \K has been encountered, this value is changed to reflect the
-       modified starting point. If the pattern is not  anchored,  the  callout
+       The start_match field normally contains the offset within  the  subject
+       at  which  the  current  match  attempt started. However, if the escape
+       sequence \K has been encountered, this value is changed to reflect  the
+       modified  starting  point.  If the pattern is not anchored, the callout
        function may be called several times from the same point in the pattern
        for different starting points in the subject.


-       The current_position field contains the offset within  the  subject  of
+       The  current_position  field  contains the offset within the subject of
        the current match pointer.


-       When  the  pcre_exec()  or  pcre[16|32]_exec() is used, the capture_top
-       field contains one more than the number of the  highest  numbered  cap-
-       tured  substring so far. If no substrings have been captured, the value
-       of capture_top is one. This is always the case when the  DFA  functions
+       When the pcre_exec() or pcre[16|32]_exec()  is  used,  the  capture_top
+       field  contains  one  more than the number of the highest numbered cap-
+       tured substring so far. If no substrings have been captured, the  value
+       of  capture_top  is one. This is always the case when the DFA functions
        are used, because they do not support captured substrings.


-       The  capture_last  field  contains the number of the most recently cap-
-       tured substring. However, when a recursion exits, the value reverts  to
-       what  it  was  outside  the recursion, as do the values of all captured
-       substrings. If no substrings have been  captured,  the  value  of  cap-
-       ture_last  is  -1.  This  is always the case for the DFA matching func-
+       The capture_last field contains the number of the  most  recently  cap-
+       tured  substring. However, when a recursion exits, the value reverts to
+       what it was outside the recursion, as do the  values  of  all  captured
+       substrings.  If  no  substrings  have  been captured, the value of cap-
+       ture_last is -1. This is always the case for  the  DFA  matching  func-
        tions.


-       The callout_data field contains a value that is passed  to  a  matching
-       function  specifically so that it can be passed back in callouts. It is
-       passed in the callout_data field of a pcre_extra  or  pcre[16|32]_extra
-       data  structure.  If no such data was passed, the value of callout_data
-       in a callout block is NULL. There is a description  of  the  pcre_extra
+       The  callout_data  field  contains a value that is passed to a matching
+       function specifically so that it can be passed back in callouts. It  is
+       passed  in  the callout_data field of a pcre_extra or pcre[16|32]_extra
+       data structure. If no such data was passed, the value  of  callout_data
+       in  a  callout  block is NULL. There is a description of the pcre_extra
        structure in the pcreapi documentation.


-       The  pattern_position  field  is  present from version 1 of the callout
+       The pattern_position field is present from version  1  of  the  callout
        structure. It contains the offset to the next item to be matched in the
        pattern string.


-       The  next_item_length  field  is  present from version 1 of the callout
+       The next_item_length field is present from version  1  of  the  callout
        structure. It contains the length of the next item to be matched in the
-       pattern  string.  When  the callout immediately precedes an alternation
-       bar, a closing parenthesis, or the end of the pattern,  the  length  is
-       zero.  When  the callout precedes an opening parenthesis, the length is
+       pattern string. When the callout immediately  precedes  an  alternation
+       bar,  a  closing  parenthesis, or the end of the pattern, the length is
+       zero. When the callout precedes an opening parenthesis, the  length  is
        that of the entire subpattern.


-       The pattern_position and next_item_length fields are intended  to  help
-       in  distinguishing between different automatic callouts, which all have
+       The  pattern_position  and next_item_length fields are intended to help
+       in distinguishing between different automatic callouts, which all  have
        the same callout number. However, they are set for all callouts.


-       The mark field is present from version 2 of the callout  structure.  In
-       callouts  from  pcre_exec() or pcre[16|32]_exec() it contains a pointer
-       to the zero-terminated  name  of  the  most  recently  passed  (*MARK),
-       (*PRUNE),  or  (*THEN) item in the match, or NULL if no such items have
-       been passed. Instances of (*PRUNE) or (*THEN) without  a  name  do  not
-       obliterate  a previous (*MARK). In callouts from the DFA matching func-
+       The  mark  field is present from version 2 of the callout structure. In
+       callouts from pcre_exec() or pcre[16|32]_exec() it contains  a  pointer
+       to  the  zero-terminated  name  of  the  most  recently passed (*MARK),
+       (*PRUNE), or (*THEN) item in the match, or NULL if no such  items  have
+       been  passed.  Instances  of  (*PRUNE) or (*THEN) without a name do not
+       obliterate a previous (*MARK). In callouts from the DFA matching  func-
        tions this field always contains NULL.



RETURN VALUES

-       The external callout function returns an integer to PCRE. If the  value
-       is  zero,  matching  proceeds  as  normal. If the value is greater than
-       zero, matching fails at the current point, but  the  testing  of  other
+       The  external callout function returns an integer to PCRE. If the value
+       is zero, matching proceeds as normal. If  the  value  is  greater  than
+       zero,  matching  fails  at  the current point, but the testing of other
        matching possibilities goes ahead, just as if a lookahead assertion had
-       failed. If the value is less than zero, the  match  is  abandoned,  the
+       failed.  If  the  value  is less than zero, the match is abandoned, the
        matching function returns the negative value.


-       Negative   values   should   normally   be   chosen  from  the  set  of
+       Negative  values  should  normally  be   chosen   from   the   set   of
        PCRE_ERROR_xxx values. In particular, PCRE_ERROR_NOMATCH forces a stan-
-       dard  "no  match"  failure.   The  error  number  PCRE_ERROR_CALLOUT is
-       reserved for use by callout functions; it will never be  used  by  PCRE
+       dard "no  match"  failure.   The  error  number  PCRE_ERROR_CALLOUT  is
+       reserved  for  use  by callout functions; it will never be used by PCRE
        itself.



@@ -4410,11 +4500,11 @@

REVISION

-       Last updated: 03 March 2013
+       Last updated: 12 November 2013
        Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCRECOMPAT(3)              Library Functions Manual              PCRECOMPAT(3)



@@ -4532,17 +4622,23 @@

        15. Perl recognizes comments in some places that  PCRE  does  not,  for
        example,  between  the  ( and ? at the start of a subpattern. If the /x
-       modifier is set, Perl allows white space between ( and ? but PCRE never
-       does, even if the PCRE_EXTENDED option is set.
+       modifier is set, Perl allows white space between ( and ?  (though  cur-
+       rent  Perls  warn that this is deprecated) but PCRE never does, even if
+       the PCRE_EXTENDED option is set.


-       16.  In  PCRE,  the upper/lower case character properties Lu and Ll are
+       16. Perl, when in warning mode, gives warnings  for  character  classes
+       such  as  [A-\d] or [a-[:digit:]]. It then treats the hyphens as liter-
+       als. PCRE has no warning features, so it gives an error in these  cases
+       because they are almost certainly user mistakes.
+
+       17.  In  PCRE,  the upper/lower case character properties Lu and Ll are
        not affected when case-independent matching is specified. For  example,
        \p{Lu} always matches an upper case letter. I think Perl has changed in
        this respect; in the release at the time of writing (5.16), \p{Lu}  and
        \p{Ll} match all letters, regardless of case, when case independence is
        specified.


-       17. PCRE provides some extensions to the Perl regular expression facil-
+       18. PCRE provides some extensions to the Perl regular expression facil-
        ities.   Perl  5.10  includes new features that are not in earlier ver-
        sions of Perl, some of which (such as named parentheses) have  been  in
        PCRE for some time. This list is with respect to Perl 5.10:
@@ -4599,11 +4695,11 @@


REVISION

-       Last updated: 19 March 2013
+       Last updated: 10 November 2013
        Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCREPATTERN(3)             Library Functions Manual             PCREPATTERN(3)



@@ -4678,20 +4774,26 @@

    Unicode property support


-       Another special sequence that may appear at the start of a pattern is
+       Another special sequence that may appear at the start of a  pattern  is
+       (*UCP).   This  has  the same effect as setting the PCRE_UCP option: it
+       causes sequences such as \d and \w to use Unicode properties to  deter-
+       mine character types, instead of recognizing only characters with codes
+       less than 128 via a lookup table.


-         (*UCP)
+   Disabling auto-possessification


-       This has the same effect as setting  the  PCRE_UCP  option:  it  causes
-       sequences  such  as  \d  and  \w to use Unicode properties to determine
-       character types, instead of recognizing only characters with codes less
-       than 128 via a lookup table.
+       If a pattern starts with (*NO_AUTO_POSSESS), it has the same effect  as
+       setting  the  PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS  option  at compile time. This stops
+       PCRE from making quantifiers possessive when what follows cannot  match
+       the  repeated item. For example, by default a+b is treated as a++b. For
+       more details, see the pcreapi documentation.


    Disabling start-up optimizations


-       If  a  pattern  starts  with (*NO_START_OPT), it has the same effect as
+       If a pattern starts with (*NO_START_OPT), it has  the  same  effect  as
        setting the PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE option either at compile or matching
-       time.
+       time. This disables several  optimizations  for  quickly  reaching  "no
+       match" results. For more details, see the pcreapi documentation.


    Newline conventions


@@ -4745,48 +4847,49 @@
          (*LIMIT_RECURSION=d)


        where d is any number of decimal digits. However, the value of the set-
-       ting must be less than the value set by the caller of  pcre_exec()  for
-       it to have any effect. In other words, the pattern writer can lower the
-       limit set by the programmer, but not raise it. If there  is  more  than
-       one setting of one of these limits, the lower value is used.
+       ting must be less than the value set (or defaulted) by  the  caller  of
+       pcre_exec()  for  it  to  have  any effect. In other words, the pattern
+       writer can lower the limits set by the programmer, but not raise  them.
+       If  there  is  more  than one setting of one of these limits, the lower
+       value is used.



EBCDIC CHARACTER CODES

-       PCRE  can  be compiled to run in an environment that uses EBCDIC as its
+       PCRE can be compiled to run in an environment that uses EBCDIC  as  its
        character code rather than ASCII or Unicode (typically a mainframe sys-
-       tem).  In  the  sections below, character code values are ASCII or Uni-
+       tem). In the sections below, character code values are  ASCII  or  Uni-
        code; in an EBCDIC environment these characters may have different code
        values, and there are no code points greater than 255.



CHARACTERS AND METACHARACTERS

-       A  regular  expression  is  a pattern that is matched against a subject
-       string from left to right. Most characters stand for  themselves  in  a
-       pattern,  and  match  the corresponding characters in the subject. As a
+       A regular expression is a pattern that is  matched  against  a  subject
+       string  from  left  to right. Most characters stand for themselves in a
+       pattern, and match the corresponding characters in the  subject.  As  a
        trivial example, the pattern


          The quick brown fox


        matches a portion of a subject string that is identical to itself. When
-       caseless  matching is specified (the PCRE_CASELESS option), letters are
-       matched independently of case. In a UTF mode, PCRE  always  understands
-       the  concept  of case for characters whose values are less than 128, so
-       caseless matching is always possible. For characters with  higher  val-
-       ues,  the concept of case is supported if PCRE is compiled with Unicode
-       property support, but not otherwise.   If  you  want  to  use  caseless
-       matching  for  characters  128  and above, you must ensure that PCRE is
+       caseless matching is specified (the PCRE_CASELESS option), letters  are
+       matched  independently  of case. In a UTF mode, PCRE always understands
+       the concept of case for characters whose values are less than  128,  so
+       caseless  matching  is always possible. For characters with higher val-
+       ues, the concept of case is supported if PCRE is compiled with  Unicode
+       property  support,  but  not  otherwise.   If  you want to use caseless
+       matching for characters 128 and above, you must  ensure  that  PCRE  is
        compiled with Unicode property support as well as with UTF support.


-       The power of regular expressions comes  from  the  ability  to  include
-       alternatives  and  repetitions in the pattern. These are encoded in the
+       The  power  of  regular  expressions  comes from the ability to include
+       alternatives and repetitions in the pattern. These are encoded  in  the
        pattern by the use of metacharacters, which do not stand for themselves
        but instead are interpreted in some special way.


-       There  are  two different sets of metacharacters: those that are recog-
-       nized anywhere in the pattern except within square brackets, and  those
-       that  are  recognized  within square brackets. Outside square brackets,
+       There are two different sets of metacharacters: those that  are  recog-
+       nized  anywhere in the pattern except within square brackets, and those
+       that are recognized within square brackets.  Outside  square  brackets,
        the metacharacters are as follows:


          \      general escape character with several uses
@@ -4805,7 +4908,7 @@
                 also "possessive quantifier"
          {      start min/max quantifier


-       Part of a pattern that is in square brackets  is  called  a  "character
+       Part  of  a  pattern  that is in square brackets is called a "character
        class". In a character class the only metacharacters are:


          \      general escape character
@@ -4822,30 +4925,30 @@


        The backslash character has several uses. Firstly, if it is followed by
        a character that is not a number or a letter, it takes away any special
-       meaning  that  character  may  have. This use of backslash as an escape
+       meaning that character may have. This use of  backslash  as  an  escape
        character applies both inside and outside character classes.


-       For example, if you want to match a * character, you write  \*  in  the
-       pattern.   This  escaping  action  applies whether or not the following
-       character would otherwise be interpreted as a metacharacter, so  it  is
-       always  safe  to  precede  a non-alphanumeric with backslash to specify
-       that it stands for itself. In particular, if you want to match a  back-
+       For  example,  if  you want to match a * character, you write \* in the
+       pattern.  This escaping action applies whether  or  not  the  following
+       character  would  otherwise be interpreted as a metacharacter, so it is
+       always safe to precede a non-alphanumeric  with  backslash  to  specify
+       that  it stands for itself. In particular, if you want to match a back-
        slash, you write \\.


-       In  a UTF mode, only ASCII numbers and letters have any special meaning
-       after a backslash. All other characters  (in  particular,  those  whose
+       In a UTF mode, only ASCII numbers and letters have any special  meaning
+       after  a  backslash.  All  other characters (in particular, those whose
        codepoints are greater than 127) are treated as literals.


-       If  a pattern is compiled with the PCRE_EXTENDED option, white space in
-       the pattern (other than in a character class) and characters between  a
-       # outside a character class and the next newline are ignored. An escap-
-       ing backslash can be used to include a white space or  #  character  as
-       part of the pattern.
+       If a pattern is compiled with  the  PCRE_EXTENDED  option,  most  white
+       space  in the pattern (other than in a character class), and characters
+       between a # outside a character class and the next newline,  inclusive,
+       are ignored. An escaping backslash can be used to include a white space
+       or # character as part of the pattern.


-       If  you  want  to remove the special meaning from a sequence of charac-
-       ters, you can do so by putting them between \Q and \E. This is  differ-
-       ent  from  Perl  in  that  $  and  @ are handled as literals in \Q...\E
-       sequences in PCRE, whereas in Perl, $ and @ cause  variable  interpola-
+       If you want to remove the special meaning from a  sequence  of  charac-
+       ters,  you can do so by putting them between \Q and \E. This is differ-
+       ent from Perl in that $ and  @  are  handled  as  literals  in  \Q...\E
+       sequences  in  PCRE, whereas in Perl, $ and @ cause variable interpola-
        tion. Note the following examples:


          Pattern            PCRE matches   Perl matches
@@ -4855,20 +4958,20 @@
          \Qabc\$xyz\E       abc\$xyz       abc\$xyz
          \Qabc\E\$\Qxyz\E   abc$xyz        abc$xyz


-       The  \Q...\E  sequence  is recognized both inside and outside character
-       classes.  An isolated \E that is not preceded by \Q is ignored.  If  \Q
-       is  not followed by \E later in the pattern, the literal interpretation
-       continues to the end of the pattern (that is,  \E  is  assumed  at  the
-       end).  If  the  isolated \Q is inside a character class, this causes an
+       The \Q...\E sequence is recognized both inside  and  outside  character
+       classes.   An  isolated \E that is not preceded by \Q is ignored. If \Q
+       is not followed by \E later in the pattern, the literal  interpretation
+       continues  to  the  end  of  the pattern (that is, \E is assumed at the
+       end). If the isolated \Q is inside a character class,  this  causes  an
        error, because the character class is not terminated.


    Non-printing characters


        A second use of backslash provides a way of encoding non-printing char-
-       acters  in patterns in a visible manner. There is no restriction on the
-       appearance of non-printing characters, apart from the binary zero  that
-       terminates  a  pattern,  but  when  a pattern is being prepared by text
-       editing, it is  often  easier  to  use  one  of  the  following  escape
+       acters in patterns in a visible manner. There is no restriction on  the
+       appearance  of non-printing characters, apart from the binary zero that
+       terminates a pattern, but when a pattern  is  being  prepared  by  text
+       editing,  it  is  often  easier  to  use  one  of  the following escape
        sequences than the binary character it represents:


          \a        alarm, that is, the BEL character (hex 07)
@@ -4878,84 +4981,63 @@
          \n        linefeed (hex 0A)
          \r        carriage return (hex 0D)
          \t        tab (hex 09)
+         \0dd      character with octal code 0dd
          \ddd      character with octal code ddd, or back reference
+         \o{ddd..} character with octal code ddd..
          \xhh      character with hex code hh
          \x{hhh..} character with hex code hhh.. (non-JavaScript mode)
          \uhhhh    character with hex code hhhh (JavaScript mode only)


-       The  precise effect of \cx on ASCII characters is as follows: if x is a
-       lower case letter, it is converted to upper case. Then  bit  6  of  the
+       The precise effect of \cx on ASCII characters is as follows: if x is  a
+       lower  case  letter,  it  is converted to upper case. Then bit 6 of the
        character (hex 40) is inverted. Thus \cA to \cZ become hex 01 to hex 1A
-       (A is 41, Z is 5A), but \c{ becomes hex 3B ({ is 7B), and  \c;  becomes
-       hex  7B (; is 3B). If the data item (byte or 16-bit value) following \c
-       has a value greater than 127, a compile-time error occurs.  This  locks
+       (A  is  41, Z is 5A), but \c{ becomes hex 3B ({ is 7B), and \c; becomes
+       hex 7B (; is 3B). If the data item (byte or 16-bit value) following  \c
+       has  a  value greater than 127, a compile-time error occurs. This locks
        out non-ASCII characters in all modes.


-       The  \c  facility  was designed for use with ASCII characters, but with
-       the extension to Unicode it is even less useful than it  once  was.  It
-       is,  however,  recognized  when  PCRE is compiled in EBCDIC mode, where
-       data items are always bytes. In this mode, all values are  valid  after
-       \c.  If  the  next character is a lower case letter, it is converted to
-       upper case. Then the 0xc0 bits of  the  byte  are  inverted.  Thus  \cA
-       becomes  hex  01, as in ASCII (A is C1), but because the EBCDIC letters
-       are disjoint, \cZ becomes hex 29 (Z is E9), and other  characters  also
+       The \c facility was designed for use with ASCII  characters,  but  with
+       the  extension  to  Unicode it is even less useful than it once was. It
+       is, however, recognized when PCRE is compiled  in  EBCDIC  mode,  where
+       data  items  are always bytes. In this mode, all values are valid after
+       \c. If the next character is a lower case letter, it  is  converted  to
+       upper  case.  Then  the  0xc0  bits  of the byte are inverted. Thus \cA
+       becomes hex 01, as in ASCII (A is C1), but because the  EBCDIC  letters
+       are  disjoint,  \cZ becomes hex 29 (Z is E9), and other characters also
        generate different values.


-       By  default,  after  \x,  from  zero to two hexadecimal digits are read
-       (letters can be in upper or lower case). Any number of hexadecimal dig-
-       its may appear between \x{ and }, but the character code is constrained
-       as follows:
+       After \0 up to two further octal digits are read. If  there  are  fewer
+       than  two  digits,  just  those  that  are  present  are used. Thus the
+       sequence \0\x\07 specifies two binary zeros followed by a BEL character
+       (code  value 7). Make sure you supply two digits after the initial zero
+       if the pattern character that follows is itself an octal digit.


-         8-bit non-UTF mode    less than 0x100
-         8-bit UTF-8 mode      less than 0x10ffff and a valid codepoint
-         16-bit non-UTF mode   less than 0x10000
-         16-bit UTF-16 mode    less than 0x10ffff and a valid codepoint
-         32-bit non-UTF mode   less than 0x80000000
-         32-bit UTF-32 mode    less than 0x10ffff and a valid codepoint
+       The escape \o must be followed by a sequence of octal digits,  enclosed
+       in  braces.  An  error occurs if this is not the case. This escape is a
+       recent addition to Perl; it provides way of specifying  character  code
+       points  as  octal  numbers  greater than 0777, and it also allows octal
+       numbers and back references to be unambiguously specified.


-       Invalid Unicode codepoints are the range  0xd800  to  0xdfff  (the  so-
-       called "surrogate" codepoints), and 0xffef.
+       For greater clarity and unambiguity, it is best to avoid following \ by
+       a digit greater than zero. Instead, use \o{} or \x{} to specify charac-
+       ter numbers, and \g{} to specify back references. The  following  para-
+       graphs describe the old, ambiguous syntax.


-       If  characters  other than hexadecimal digits appear between \x{ and },
-       or if there is no terminating }, this form of escape is not recognized.
-       Instead,  the  initial  \x  will  be interpreted as a basic hexadecimal
-       escape, with no following digits, giving a  character  whose  value  is
-       zero.
-
-       If  the  PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT option is set, the interpretation of \x
-       is as just described only when it is followed by two  hexadecimal  dig-
-       its.   Otherwise,  it  matches  a  literal "x" character. In JavaScript
-       mode, support for code points greater than 256 is provided by \u, which
-       must  be  followed  by  four hexadecimal digits; otherwise it matches a
-       literal "u" character.  Character codes specified by \u  in  JavaScript
-       mode  are  constrained in the same was as those specified by \x in non-
-       JavaScript mode.
-
-       Characters whose value is less than 256 can be defined by either of the
-       two  syntaxes for \x (or by \u in JavaScript mode). There is no differ-
-       ence in the way they are handled. For example, \xdc is exactly the same
-       as \x{dc} (or \u00dc in JavaScript mode).
-
-       After  \0  up  to two further octal digits are read. If there are fewer
-       than two digits, just  those  that  are  present  are  used.  Thus  the
-       sequence \0\x\07 specifies two binary zeros followed by a BEL character
-       (code value 7). Make sure you supply two digits after the initial  zero
-       if the pattern character that follows is itself an octal digit.
-
        The handling of a backslash followed by a digit other than 0 is compli-
-       cated.  Outside a character class, PCRE reads it and any following dig-
-       its  as  a  decimal  number. If the number is less than 10, or if there
-       have been at least that many previous capturing left parentheses in the
-       expression,  the  entire  sequence  is  taken  as  a  back reference. A
-       description of how this works is given later, following the  discussion
+       cated, and Perl has changed in recent releases, causing  PCRE  also  to
+       change. Outside a character class, PCRE reads the digit and any follow-
+       ing digits as a decimal number. If the number is less  than  8,  or  if
+       there  have been at least that many previous capturing left parentheses
+       in the expression, the entire sequence is taken as a back reference.  A
+       description  of how this works is given later, following the discussion
        of parenthesized subpatterns.


-       Inside  a  character  class, or if the decimal number is greater than 9
-       and there have not been that many capturing subpatterns, PCRE  re-reads
-       up to three octal digits following the backslash, and uses them to gen-
-       erate a data character. Any subsequent digits stand for themselves. The
-       value  of  the  character  is constrained in the same way as characters
-       specified in hexadecimal.  For example:
+       Inside a character class, or if  the  decimal  number  following  \  is
+       greater than 7 and there have not been that many capturing subpatterns,
+       PCRE handles \8 and \9 as the literal characters "8" and "9", and  oth-
+       erwise re-reads up to three octal digits following the backslash, using
+       them to generate a data character.  Any  subsequent  digits  stand  for
+       themselves. For example:


          \040   is another way of writing an ASCII space
          \40    is the same, provided there are fewer than 40
@@ -4969,12 +5051,48 @@
                    character with octal code 113
          \377   might be a back reference, otherwise
                    the value 255 (decimal)
-         \81    is either a back reference, or a binary zero
-                   followed by the two characters "8" and "1"
+         \81    is either a back reference, or the two
+                   characters "8" and "1"


-       Note that octal values of 100 or greater must not be  introduced  by  a
-       leading zero, because no more than three octal digits are ever read.
+       Note  that octal values of 100 or greater that are specified using this
+       syntax must not be introduced by a leading zero, because no  more  than
+       three octal digits are ever read.


+       By  default, after \x that is not followed by {, from zero to two hexa-
+       decimal digits are read (letters can be in upper or  lower  case).  Any
+       number of hexadecimal digits may appear between \x{ and }. If a charac-
+       ter other than a hexadecimal digit appears between \x{  and  },  or  if
+       there is no terminating }, an error occurs.
+
+       If  the  PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT option is set, the interpretation of \x
+       is as just described only when it is followed by two  hexadecimal  dig-
+       its.   Otherwise,  it  matches  a  literal "x" character. In JavaScript
+       mode, support for code points greater than 256 is provided by \u, which
+       must  be  followed  by  four hexadecimal digits; otherwise it matches a
+       literal "u" character.
+
+       Characters whose value is less than 256 can be defined by either of the
+       two  syntaxes for \x (or by \u in JavaScript mode). There is no differ-
+       ence in the way they are handled. For example, \xdc is exactly the same
+       as \x{dc} (or \u00dc in JavaScript mode).
+
+   Constraints on character values
+
+       Characters  that  are  specified using octal or hexadecimal numbers are
+       limited to certain values, as follows:
+
+         8-bit non-UTF mode    less than 0x100
+         8-bit UTF-8 mode      less than 0x10ffff and a valid codepoint
+         16-bit non-UTF mode   less than 0x10000
+         16-bit UTF-16 mode    less than 0x10ffff and a valid codepoint
+         32-bit non-UTF mode   less than 0x100000000
+         32-bit UTF-32 mode    less than 0x10ffff and a valid codepoint
+
+       Invalid Unicode codepoints are the range  0xd800  to  0xdfff  (the  so-
+       called "surrogate" codepoints), and 0xffef.
+
+   Escape sequences in character classes
+
        All the sequences that define a single character value can be used both
        inside and outside character classes. In addition, inside  a  character
        class, \b is interpreted as the backspace character (hex 08).
@@ -5038,32 +5156,36 @@
        the subject string, all of them fail, because there is no character  to
        match.


-       For  compatibility  with Perl, \s does not match the VT character (code
-       11).  This makes it different from the the POSIX "space" class. The  \s
-       characters  are  HT  (9), LF (10), FF (12), CR (13), and space (32). If
-       "use locale;" is included in a Perl script, \s may match the VT charac-
-       ter. In PCRE, it never does.
+       For  compatibility with Perl, \s did not used to match the VT character
+       (code 11), which made it different from the the  POSIX  "space"  class.
+       However,  Perl  added  VT  at  release  5.18, and PCRE followed suit at
+       release 8.34. The default \s characters are now HT  (9),  LF  (10),  VT
+       (11),  FF  (12),  CR  (13),  and space (32), which are defined as white
+       space in the "C" locale. This list may vary if locale-specific matching
+       is  taking  place;  in  particular,  in  some locales the "non-breaking
+       space" character (\xA0) is recognized as white space.


-       A  "word"  character is an underscore or any character that is a letter
-       or digit.  By default, the definition of letters  and  digits  is  con-
-       trolled  by PCRE's low-valued character tables, and may vary if locale-
-       specific matching is taking place (see "Locale support" in the  pcreapi
-       page).  For  example,  in  a French locale such as "fr_FR" in Unix-like
-       systems, or "french" in Windows, some character codes greater than  128
-       are  used  for  accented letters, and these are then matched by \w. The
+       A "word" character is an underscore or any character that is  a  letter
+       or  digit.   By  default,  the definition of letters and digits is con-
+       trolled by PCRE's low-valued character tables, and may vary if  locale-
+       specific  matching is taking place (see "Locale support" in the pcreapi
+       page). For example, in a French locale such  as  "fr_FR"  in  Unix-like
+       systems,  or "french" in Windows, some character codes greater than 127
+       are used for accented letters, and these are then matched  by  \w.  The
        use of locales with Unicode is discouraged.


-       By default, in a UTF mode, characters  with  values  greater  than  128
-       never  match  \d,  \s,  or  \w,  and always match \D, \S, and \W. These
-       sequences retain their original meanings from before  UTF  support  was
-       available,  mainly for efficiency reasons. However, if PCRE is compiled
-       with Unicode property support, and the PCRE_UCP option is set, the  be-
-       haviour  is  changed  so  that Unicode properties are used to determine
-       character types, as follows:
+       By  default,  characters  whose  code points are greater than 127 never
+       match \d, \s, or \w, and always match \D, \S, and \W, although this may
+       vary  for characters in the range 128-255 when locale-specific matching
+       is happening.  These escape sequences retain  their  original  meanings
+       from  before  Unicode support was available, mainly for efficiency rea-
+       sons. If PCRE is  compiled  with  Unicode  property  support,  and  the
+       PCRE_UCP  option is set, the behaviour is changed so that Unicode prop-
+       erties are used to determine character types, as follows:


-         \d  any character that \p{Nd} matches (decimal digit)
-         \s  any character that \p{Z} matches, plus HT, LF, FF, CR
-         \w  any character that \p{L} or \p{N} matches, plus underscore
+         \d  any character that matches \p{Nd} (decimal digit)
+         \s  any character that matches \p{Z} or \h or \v
+         \w  any character that matches \p{L} or \p{N}, plus underscore


        The upper case escapes match the inverse sets of characters. Note  that
        \d  matches  only decimal digits, whereas \w matches any Unicode digit,
@@ -5074,7 +5196,7 @@
        The sequences \h, \H, \v, and \V are features that were added  to  Perl
        at  release  5.10. In contrast to the other sequences, which match only
        ASCII characters by default, these  always  match  certain  high-valued
-       codepoints,  whether or not PCRE_UCP is set. The horizontal space char-
+       code points, whether or not PCRE_UCP is set. The horizontal space char-
        acters are:


          U+0009     Horizontal tab (HT)
@@ -5340,60 +5462,61 @@


        As well as the standard Unicode properties described above,  PCRE  sup-
        ports  four  more  that  make it possible to convert traditional escape
-       sequences such as \w and \s and POSIX character classes to use  Unicode
-       properties.  PCRE  uses  these non-standard, non-Perl properties inter-
-       nally when PCRE_UCP is set. However, they may also be used  explicitly.
-       These properties are:
+       sequences such as \w and \s to use Unicode properties. PCRE uses  these
+       non-standard, non-Perl properties internally when PCRE_UCP is set. How-
+       ever, they may also be used explicitly. These properties are:


          Xan   Any alphanumeric character
          Xps   Any POSIX space character
          Xsp   Any Perl space character
          Xwd   Any Perl "word" character


-       Xan  matches  characters that have either the L (letter) or the N (num-
-       ber) property. Xps matches the characters tab, linefeed, vertical  tab,
-       form  feed,  or carriage return, and any other character that has the Z
-       (separator) property.  Xsp is the same as Xps, except that vertical tab
-       is excluded. Xwd matches the same characters as Xan, plus underscore.
+       Xan matches characters that have either the L (letter) or the  N  (num-
+       ber)  property. Xps matches the characters tab, linefeed, vertical tab,
+       form feed, or carriage return, and any other character that has  the  Z
+       (separator)  property.  Xsp is the same as Xps; it used to exclude ver-
+       tical tab, for Perl compatibility, but Perl changed, and so  PCRE  fol-
+       lowed  at  release  8.34.  Xwd matches the same characters as Xan, plus
+       underscore.


-       There  is another non-standard property, Xuc, which matches any charac-
-       ter that can be represented by a Universal Character Name  in  C++  and
-       other  programming  languages.  These are the characters $, @, ` (grave
-       accent), and all characters with Unicode code points  greater  than  or
-       equal  to U+00A0, except for the surrogates U+D800 to U+DFFF. Note that
-       most base (ASCII) characters are excluded. (Universal  Character  Names
-       are  of  the  form \uHHHH or \UHHHHHHHH where H is a hexadecimal digit.
+       There is another non-standard property, Xuc, which matches any  charac-
+       ter  that  can  be represented by a Universal Character Name in C++ and
+       other programming languages. These are the characters $,  @,  `  (grave
+       accent),  and  all  characters with Unicode code points greater than or
+       equal to U+00A0, except for the surrogates U+D800 to U+DFFF. Note  that
+       most  base  (ASCII) characters are excluded. (Universal Character Names
+       are of the form \uHHHH or \UHHHHHHHH where H is  a  hexadecimal  digit.
        Note that the Xuc property does not match these sequences but the char-
        acters that they represent.)


    Resetting the match start


-       The  escape sequence \K causes any previously matched characters not to
+       The escape sequence \K causes any previously matched characters not  to
        be included in the final matched sequence. For example, the pattern:


          foo\Kbar


-       matches "foobar", but reports that it has matched "bar".  This  feature
-       is  similar  to  a lookbehind assertion (described below).  However, in
-       this case, the part of the subject before the real match does not  have
-       to  be of fixed length, as lookbehind assertions do. The use of \K does
-       not interfere with the setting of captured  substrings.   For  example,
+       matches  "foobar",  but reports that it has matched "bar". This feature
+       is similar to a lookbehind assertion (described  below).   However,  in
+       this  case, the part of the subject before the real match does not have
+       to be of fixed length, as lookbehind assertions do. The use of \K  does
+       not  interfere  with  the setting of captured substrings.  For example,
        when the pattern


          (foo)\Kbar


        matches "foobar", the first substring is still set to "foo".


-       Perl  documents  that  the  use  of  \K  within assertions is "not well
-       defined". In PCRE, \K is acted upon  when  it  occurs  inside  positive
+       Perl documents that the use  of  \K  within  assertions  is  "not  well
+       defined".  In  PCRE,  \K  is  acted upon when it occurs inside positive
        assertions, but is ignored in negative assertions.


    Simple assertions


-       The  final use of backslash is for certain simple assertions. An asser-
-       tion specifies a condition that has to be met at a particular point  in
-       a  match, without consuming any characters from the subject string. The
-       use of subpatterns for more complicated assertions is described  below.
+       The final use of backslash is for certain simple assertions. An  asser-
+       tion  specifies a condition that has to be met at a particular point in
+       a match, without consuming any characters from the subject string.  The
+       use  of subpatterns for more complicated assertions is described below.
        The backslashed assertions are:


          \b     matches at a word boundary
@@ -5404,161 +5527,161 @@
          \z     matches only at the end of the subject
          \G     matches at the first matching position in the subject


-       Inside  a  character  class, \b has a different meaning; it matches the
-       backspace character. If any other of  these  assertions  appears  in  a
-       character  class, by default it matches the corresponding literal char-
+       Inside a character class, \b has a different meaning;  it  matches  the
+       backspace  character.  If  any  other  of these assertions appears in a
+       character class, by default it matches the corresponding literal  char-
        acter  (for  example,  \B  matches  the  letter  B).  However,  if  the
-       PCRE_EXTRA  option is set, an "invalid escape sequence" error is gener-
+       PCRE_EXTRA option is set, an "invalid escape sequence" error is  gener-
        ated instead.


-       A word boundary is a position in the subject string where  the  current
-       character  and  the previous character do not both match \w or \W (i.e.
-       one matches \w and the other matches \W), or the start or  end  of  the
-       string  if  the  first or last character matches \w, respectively. In a
-       UTF mode, the meanings of \w and \W  can  be  changed  by  setting  the
-       PCRE_UCP  option. When this is done, it also affects \b and \B. Neither
-       PCRE nor Perl has a separate "start of word" or "end of  word"  metase-
-       quence.  However,  whatever follows \b normally determines which it is.
+       A  word  boundary is a position in the subject string where the current
+       character and the previous character do not both match \w or  \W  (i.e.
+       one  matches  \w  and the other matches \W), or the start or end of the
+       string if the first or last character matches \w,  respectively.  In  a
+       UTF  mode,  the  meanings  of  \w  and \W can be changed by setting the
+       PCRE_UCP option. When this is done, it also affects \b and \B.  Neither
+       PCRE  nor  Perl has a separate "start of word" or "end of word" metase-
+       quence. However, whatever follows \b normally determines which  it  is.
        For example, the fragment \ba matches "a" at the start of a word.


-       The \A, \Z, and \z assertions differ from  the  traditional  circumflex
+       The  \A,  \Z,  and \z assertions differ from the traditional circumflex
        and dollar (described in the next section) in that they only ever match
-       at the very start and end of the subject string, whatever  options  are
-       set.  Thus,  they are independent of multiline mode. These three asser-
+       at  the  very start and end of the subject string, whatever options are
+       set. Thus, they are independent of multiline mode. These  three  asser-
        tions are not affected by the PCRE_NOTBOL or PCRE_NOTEOL options, which
-       affect  only the behaviour of the circumflex and dollar metacharacters.
-       However, if the startoffset argument of pcre_exec() is non-zero,  indi-
+       affect only the behaviour of the circumflex and dollar  metacharacters.
+       However,  if the startoffset argument of pcre_exec() is non-zero, indi-
        cating that matching is to start at a point other than the beginning of
-       the subject, \A can never match. The difference between \Z  and  \z  is
+       the  subject,  \A  can never match. The difference between \Z and \z is
        that \Z matches before a newline at the end of the string as well as at
        the very end, whereas \z matches only at the end.


-       The \G assertion is true only when the current matching position is  at
-       the  start point of the match, as specified by the startoffset argument
-       of pcre_exec(). It differs from \A when the  value  of  startoffset  is
-       non-zero.  By calling pcre_exec() multiple times with appropriate argu-
+       The  \G assertion is true only when the current matching position is at
+       the start point of the match, as specified by the startoffset  argument
+       of  pcre_exec().  It  differs  from \A when the value of startoffset is
+       non-zero. By calling pcre_exec() multiple times with appropriate  argu-
        ments, you can mimic Perl's /g option, and it is in this kind of imple-
        mentation where \G can be useful.


-       Note,  however,  that  PCRE's interpretation of \G, as the start of the
+       Note, however, that PCRE's interpretation of \G, as the  start  of  the
        current match, is subtly different from Perl's, which defines it as the
-       end  of  the  previous  match. In Perl, these can be different when the
-       previously matched string was empty. Because PCRE does just  one  match
+       end of the previous match. In Perl, these can  be  different  when  the
+       previously  matched  string was empty. Because PCRE does just one match
        at a time, it cannot reproduce this behaviour.


-       If  all  the alternatives of a pattern begin with \G, the expression is
+       If all the alternatives of a pattern begin with \G, the  expression  is
        anchored to the starting match position, and the "anchored" flag is set
        in the compiled regular expression.



CIRCUMFLEX AND DOLLAR

-       The  circumflex  and  dollar  metacharacters are zero-width assertions.
-       That is, they test for a particular condition being true  without  con-
+       The circumflex and dollar  metacharacters  are  zero-width  assertions.
+       That  is,  they test for a particular condition being true without con-
        suming any characters from the subject string.


        Outside a character class, in the default matching mode, the circumflex
-       character is an assertion that is true only  if  the  current  matching
-       point  is  at the start of the subject string. If the startoffset argu-
-       ment of pcre_exec() is non-zero, circumflex  can  never  match  if  the
-       PCRE_MULTILINE  option  is  unset. Inside a character class, circumflex
+       character  is  an  assertion  that is true only if the current matching
+       point is at the start of the subject string. If the  startoffset  argu-
+       ment  of  pcre_exec()  is  non-zero,  circumflex can never match if the
+       PCRE_MULTILINE option is unset. Inside a  character  class,  circumflex
        has an entirely different meaning (see below).


-       Circumflex need not be the first character of the pattern if  a  number
-       of  alternatives are involved, but it should be the first thing in each
-       alternative in which it appears if the pattern is ever  to  match  that
-       branch.  If all possible alternatives start with a circumflex, that is,
-       if the pattern is constrained to match only at the start  of  the  sub-
-       ject,  it  is  said  to be an "anchored" pattern. (There are also other
+       Circumflex  need  not be the first character of the pattern if a number
+       of alternatives are involved, but it should be the first thing in  each
+       alternative  in  which  it appears if the pattern is ever to match that
+       branch. If all possible alternatives start with a circumflex, that  is,
+       if  the  pattern  is constrained to match only at the start of the sub-
+       ject, it is said to be an "anchored" pattern.  (There  are  also  other
        constructs that can cause a pattern to be anchored.)


-       The dollar character is an assertion that is true only if  the  current
-       matching  point  is  at  the  end of the subject string, or immediately
-       before a newline at the end of the string (by default). Note,  however,
-       that  it  does  not  actually match the newline. Dollar need not be the
+       The  dollar  character is an assertion that is true only if the current
+       matching point is at the end of  the  subject  string,  or  immediately
+       before  a newline at the end of the string (by default). Note, however,
+       that it does not actually match the newline. Dollar  need  not  be  the
        last character of the pattern if a number of alternatives are involved,
-       but  it should be the last item in any branch in which it appears. Dol-
+       but it should be the last item in any branch in which it appears.  Dol-
        lar has no special meaning in a character class.


-       The meaning of dollar can be changed so that it  matches  only  at  the
-       very  end  of  the string, by setting the PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY option at
+       The  meaning  of  dollar  can be changed so that it matches only at the
+       very end of the string, by setting the  PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY  option  at
        compile time. This does not affect the \Z assertion.


        The meanings of the circumflex and dollar characters are changed if the
-       PCRE_MULTILINE  option  is  set.  When  this  is the case, a circumflex
-       matches immediately after internal newlines as well as at the start  of
-       the  subject  string.  It  does not match after a newline that ends the
-       string. A dollar matches before any newlines in the string, as well  as
-       at  the very end, when PCRE_MULTILINE is set. When newline is specified
-       as the two-character sequence CRLF, isolated CR and  LF  characters  do
+       PCRE_MULTILINE option is set. When  this  is  the  case,  a  circumflex
+       matches  immediately after internal newlines as well as at the start of
+       the subject string. It does not match after a  newline  that  ends  the
+       string.  A dollar matches before any newlines in the string, as well as
+       at the very end, when PCRE_MULTILINE is set. When newline is  specified
+       as  the  two-character  sequence CRLF, isolated CR and LF characters do
        not indicate newlines.


-       For  example, the pattern /^abc$/ matches the subject string "def\nabc"
-       (where \n represents a newline) in multiline mode, but  not  otherwise.
-       Consequently,  patterns  that  are anchored in single line mode because
-       all branches start with ^ are not anchored in  multiline  mode,  and  a
-       match  for  circumflex  is  possible  when  the startoffset argument of
-       pcre_exec() is non-zero. The PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY option is  ignored  if
+       For example, the pattern /^abc$/ matches the subject string  "def\nabc"
+       (where  \n  represents a newline) in multiline mode, but not otherwise.
+       Consequently, patterns that are anchored in single  line  mode  because
+       all  branches  start  with  ^ are not anchored in multiline mode, and a
+       match for circumflex is  possible  when  the  startoffset  argument  of
+       pcre_exec()  is  non-zero. The PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY option is ignored if
        PCRE_MULTILINE is set.


-       Note  that  the sequences \A, \Z, and \z can be used to match the start
-       and end of the subject in both modes, and if all branches of a  pattern
-       start  with  \A it is always anchored, whether or not PCRE_MULTILINE is
+       Note that the sequences \A, \Z, and \z can be used to match  the  start
+       and  end of the subject in both modes, and if all branches of a pattern
+       start with \A it is always anchored, whether or not  PCRE_MULTILINE  is
        set.



FULL STOP (PERIOD, DOT) AND \N

        Outside a character class, a dot in the pattern matches any one charac-
-       ter  in  the subject string except (by default) a character that signi-
+       ter in the subject string except (by default) a character  that  signi-
        fies the end of a line.


-       When a line ending is defined as a single character, dot never  matches
-       that  character; when the two-character sequence CRLF is used, dot does
-       not match CR if it is immediately followed  by  LF,  but  otherwise  it
-       matches  all characters (including isolated CRs and LFs). When any Uni-
-       code line endings are being recognized, dot does not match CR or LF  or
+       When  a line ending is defined as a single character, dot never matches
+       that character; when the two-character sequence CRLF is used, dot  does
+       not  match  CR  if  it  is immediately followed by LF, but otherwise it
+       matches all characters (including isolated CRs and LFs). When any  Uni-
+       code  line endings are being recognized, dot does not match CR or LF or
        any of the other line ending characters.


-       The  behaviour  of  dot  with regard to newlines can be changed. If the
-       PCRE_DOTALL option is set, a dot matches  any  one  character,  without
+       The behaviour of dot with regard to newlines can  be  changed.  If  the
+       PCRE_DOTALL  option  is  set,  a dot matches any one character, without
        exception. If the two-character sequence CRLF is present in the subject
        string, it takes two dots to match it.


-       The handling of dot is entirely independent of the handling of  circum-
-       flex  and  dollar,  the  only relationship being that they both involve
+       The  handling of dot is entirely independent of the handling of circum-
+       flex and dollar, the only relationship being  that  they  both  involve
        newlines. Dot has no special meaning in a character class.


-       The escape sequence \N behaves like  a  dot,  except  that  it  is  not
-       affected  by  the  PCRE_DOTALL  option.  In other words, it matches any
-       character except one that signifies the end of a line. Perl  also  uses
+       The  escape  sequence  \N  behaves  like  a  dot, except that it is not
+       affected by the PCRE_DOTALL option. In  other  words,  it  matches  any
+       character  except  one that signifies the end of a line. Perl also uses
        \N to match characters by name; PCRE does not support this.



MATCHING A SINGLE DATA UNIT

-       Outside  a character class, the escape sequence \C matches any one data
-       unit, whether or not a UTF mode is set. In the 8-bit library, one  data
-       unit  is  one  byte;  in the 16-bit library it is a 16-bit unit; in the
-       32-bit library it is a 32-bit unit. Unlike a  dot,  \C  always  matches
-       line-ending  characters.  The  feature  is provided in Perl in order to
+       Outside a character class, the escape sequence \C matches any one  data
+       unit,  whether or not a UTF mode is set. In the 8-bit library, one data
+       unit is one byte; in the 16-bit library it is a  16-bit  unit;  in  the
+       32-bit  library  it  is  a 32-bit unit. Unlike a dot, \C always matches
+       line-ending characters. The feature is provided in  Perl  in  order  to
        match individual bytes in UTF-8 mode, but it is unclear how it can use-
-       fully  be  used.  Because  \C breaks up characters into individual data
-       units, matching one unit with \C in a UTF mode means that the  rest  of
+       fully be used. Because \C breaks up  characters  into  individual  data
+       units,  matching  one unit with \C in a UTF mode means that the rest of
        the string may start with a malformed UTF character. This has undefined
        results, because PCRE assumes that it is dealing with valid UTF strings
-       (and  by  default  it checks this at the start of processing unless the
-       PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK, PCRE_NO_UTF16_CHECK or  PCRE_NO_UTF32_CHECK  option
+       (and by default it checks this at the start of  processing  unless  the
+       PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK,  PCRE_NO_UTF16_CHECK  or PCRE_NO_UTF32_CHECK option
        is used).


-       PCRE  does  not  allow \C to appear in lookbehind assertions (described
-       below) in a UTF mode, because this would make it impossible  to  calcu-
+       PCRE does not allow \C to appear in  lookbehind  assertions  (described
+       below)  in  a UTF mode, because this would make it impossible to calcu-
        late the length of the lookbehind.


        In general, the \C escape sequence is best avoided. However, one way of
-       using it that avoids the problem of malformed UTF characters is to  use
-       a  lookahead to check the length of the next character, as in this pat-
-       tern, which could be used with a UTF-8 string (ignore white  space  and
+       using  it that avoids the problem of malformed UTF characters is to use
+       a lookahead to check the length of the next character, as in this  pat-
+       tern,  which  could be used with a UTF-8 string (ignore white space and
        line breaks):


          (?| (?=[\x00-\x7f])(\C) |
@@ -5566,11 +5689,11 @@
              (?=[\x{800}-\x{ffff}])(\C)(\C)(\C) |
              (?=[\x{10000}-\x{1fffff}])(\C)(\C)(\C)(\C))


-       A  group  that starts with (?| resets the capturing parentheses numbers
-       in each alternative (see "Duplicate  Subpattern  Numbers"  below).  The
-       assertions  at  the start of each branch check the next UTF-8 character
-       for values whose encoding uses 1, 2, 3, or 4 bytes,  respectively.  The
-       character's  individual bytes are then captured by the appropriate num-
+       A group that starts with (?| resets the capturing  parentheses  numbers
+       in  each  alternative  (see  "Duplicate Subpattern Numbers" below). The
+       assertions at the start of each branch check the next  UTF-8  character
+       for  values  whose encoding uses 1, 2, 3, or 4 bytes, respectively. The
+       character's individual bytes are then captured by the appropriate  num-
        ber of groups.



@@ -5580,64 +5703,71 @@
        closing square bracket. A closing square bracket on its own is not spe-
        cial by default.  However, if the PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT option is set,
        a lone closing square bracket causes a compile-time error. If a closing
-       square bracket is required as a member of the class, it should  be  the
-       first  data  character  in  the  class (after an initial circumflex, if
+       square  bracket  is required as a member of the class, it should be the
+       first data character in the class  (after  an  initial  circumflex,  if
        present) or escaped with a backslash.


-       A character class matches a single character in the subject. In  a  UTF
-       mode,  the  character  may  be  more than one data unit long. A matched
+       A  character  class matches a single character in the subject. In a UTF
+       mode, the character may be more than one  data  unit  long.  A  matched
        character must be in the set of characters defined by the class, unless
-       the  first  character in the class definition is a circumflex, in which
+       the first character in the class definition is a circumflex,  in  which
        case the subject character must not be in the set defined by the class.
-       If  a  circumflex is actually required as a member of the class, ensure
+       If a circumflex is actually required as a member of the  class,  ensure
        it is not the first character, or escape it with a backslash.


-       For example, the character class [aeiou] matches any lower case  vowel,
-       while  [^aeiou]  matches  any character that is not a lower case vowel.
+       For  example, the character class [aeiou] matches any lower case vowel,
+       while [^aeiou] matches any character that is not a  lower  case  vowel.
        Note that a circumflex is just a convenient notation for specifying the
-       characters  that  are in the class by enumerating those that are not. A
-       class that starts with a circumflex is not an assertion; it still  con-
-       sumes  a  character  from the subject string, and therefore it fails if
+       characters that are in the class by enumerating those that are  not.  A
+       class  that starts with a circumflex is not an assertion; it still con-
+       sumes a character from the subject string, and therefore  it  fails  if
        the current pointer is at the end of the string.


        In UTF-8 (UTF-16, UTF-32) mode, characters with values greater than 255
-       (0xffff)  can be included in a class as a literal string of data units,
+       (0xffff) can be included in a class as a literal string of data  units,
        or by using the \x{ escaping mechanism.


-       When caseless matching is set, any letters in a  class  represent  both
-       their  upper  case  and lower case versions, so for example, a caseless
-       [aeiou] matches "A" as well as "a", and a caseless  [^aeiou]  does  not
-       match  "A", whereas a caseful version would. In a UTF mode, PCRE always
-       understands the concept of case for characters whose  values  are  less
-       than  128, so caseless matching is always possible. For characters with
-       higher values, the concept of case is supported  if  PCRE  is  compiled
-       with  Unicode  property support, but not otherwise.  If you want to use
-       caseless matching in a UTF mode for characters 128 and above, you  must
-       ensure  that  PCRE is compiled with Unicode property support as well as
+       When  caseless  matching  is set, any letters in a class represent both
+       their upper case and lower case versions, so for  example,  a  caseless
+       [aeiou]  matches  "A"  as well as "a", and a caseless [^aeiou] does not
+       match "A", whereas a caseful version would. In a UTF mode, PCRE  always
+       understands  the  concept  of case for characters whose values are less
+       than 128, so caseless matching is always possible. For characters  with
+       higher  values,  the  concept  of case is supported if PCRE is compiled
+       with Unicode property support, but not otherwise.  If you want  to  use
+       caseless  matching in a UTF mode for characters 128 and above, you must
+       ensure that PCRE is compiled with Unicode property support as  well  as
        with UTF support.


-       Characters that might indicate line breaks are  never  treated  in  any
-       special  way  when  matching  character  classes,  whatever line-ending
-       sequence is in  use,  and  whatever  setting  of  the  PCRE_DOTALL  and
+       Characters  that  might  indicate  line breaks are never treated in any
+       special way  when  matching  character  classes,  whatever  line-ending
+       sequence  is  in  use,  and  whatever  setting  of  the PCRE_DOTALL and
        PCRE_MULTILINE options is used. A class such as [^a] always matches one
        of these characters.


-       The minus (hyphen) character can be used to specify a range of  charac-
-       ters  in  a  character  class.  For  example,  [d-m] matches any letter
-       between d and m, inclusive. If a  minus  character  is  required  in  a
-       class,  it  must  be  escaped  with a backslash or appear in a position
-       where it cannot be interpreted as indicating a range, typically as  the
-       first or last character in the class.
+       The  minus (hyphen) character can be used to specify a range of charac-
+       ters in a character  class.  For  example,  [d-m]  matches  any  letter
+       between  d  and  m,  inclusive.  If  a minus character is required in a
+       class, it must be escaped with a backslash  or  appear  in  a  position
+       where  it cannot be interpreted as indicating a range, typically as the
+       first or last character in the class, or immediately after a range. For
+       example,  [b-d-z] matches letters in the range b to d, a hyphen charac-
+       ter, or z.


        It is not possible to have the literal character "]" as the end charac-
-       ter of a range. A pattern such as [W-]46] is interpreted as a class  of
-       two  characters ("W" and "-") followed by a literal string "46]", so it
-       would match "W46]" or "-46]". However, if the "]"  is  escaped  with  a
-       backslash  it is interpreted as the end of range, so [W-\]46] is inter-
-       preted as a class containing a range followed by two other  characters.
-       The  octal or hexadecimal representation of "]" can also be used to end
+       ter  of a range. A pattern such as [W-]46] is interpreted as a class of
+       two characters ("W" and "-") followed by a literal string "46]", so  it
+       would  match  "W46]"  or  "-46]". However, if the "]" is escaped with a
+       backslash it is interpreted as the end of range, so [W-\]46] is  inter-
+       preted  as a class containing a range followed by two other characters.
+       The octal or hexadecimal representation of "]" can also be used to  end
        a range.


+       An  error  is  generated  if  a POSIX character class (see below) or an
+       escape sequence other than one that defines a single character  appears
+       at  a  point  where  a range ending character is expected. For example,
+       [z-\xff] is valid, but [A-\d] and [A-[:digit:]] are not.
+
        Ranges operate in the collating sequence of character values. They  can
        also   be  used  for  characters  specified  numerically,  for  example
        [\000-\037]. Ranges can include any characters that are valid  for  the
@@ -5700,15 +5830,17 @@
          lower    lower case letters
          print    printing characters, including space
          punct    printing characters, excluding letters and digits and space
-         space    white space (not quite the same as \s)
+         space    white space (the same as \s from PCRE 8.34)
          upper    upper case letters
          word     "word" characters (same as \w)
          xdigit   hexadecimal digits


-       The  "space" characters are HT (9), LF (10), VT (11), FF (12), CR (13),
-       and space (32). Notice that this list includes the VT  character  (code
-       11). This makes "space" different to \s, which does not include VT (for
-       Perl compatibility).
+       The  default  "space" characters are HT (9), LF (10), VT (11), FF (12),
+       CR (13), and space (32). If locale-specific matching is  taking  place,
+       there  may be additional space characters. "Space" used to be different
+       to \s, which did not include VT, for Perl compatibility. However,  Perl
+       changed at release 5.18, and PCRE followed at release 8.34. "Space" and
+       \s now match the same set of characters.


        The name "word" is a Perl extension, and "blank"  is  a  GNU  extension
        from  Perl  5.8. Another Perl extension is negation, which is indicated
@@ -5720,11 +5852,11 @@
        POSIX syntax [.ch.] and [=ch=] where "ch" is a "collating element", but
        these are not supported, and an error is given if they are encountered.


-       By default, in UTF modes, characters with values greater  than  128  do
-       not  match any of the POSIX character classes. However, if the PCRE_UCP
-       option is passed to pcre_compile(), some of the classes are changed  so
-       that Unicode character properties are used. This is achieved by replac-
-       ing the POSIX classes by other sequences, as follows:
+       By default, characters with values greater than 128 do not match any of
+       the  POSIX character classes. However, if the PCRE_UCP option is passed
+       to pcre_compile(), some of the classes  are  changed  so  that  Unicode
+       character  properties  are  used. This is achieved by replacing certain
+       POSIX classes by other sequences, as follows:


          [:alnum:]  becomes  \p{Xan}
          [:alpha:]  becomes  \p{L}
@@ -5735,11 +5867,30 @@
          [:upper:]  becomes  \p{Lu}
          [:word:]   becomes  \p{Xwd}


-       Negated versions, such as [:^alpha:] use \P instead of  \p.  The  other
-       POSIX classes are unchanged, and match only characters with code points
-       less than 128.
+       Negated versions, such as [:^alpha:] use \P instead of \p. Three  other
+       POSIX classes are handled specially in UCP mode:


+       [:graph:] This  matches  characters that have glyphs that mark the page
+                 when printed. In Unicode property terms, it matches all char-
+                 acters with the L, M, N, P, S, or Cf properties, except for:


+                   U+061C           Arabic Letter Mark
+                   U+180E           Mongolian Vowel Separator
+                   U+2066 - U+2069  Various "isolate"s
+
+
+       [:print:] This  matches  the  same  characters  as [:graph:] plus space
+                 characters that are not controls, that  is,  characters  with
+                 the Zs property.
+
+       [:punct:] This matches all characters that have the Unicode P (punctua-
+                 tion) property, plus those characters whose code  points  are
+                 less than 128 that have the S (Symbol) property.
+
+       The  other  POSIX classes are unchanged, and match only characters with
+       code points less than 128.
+
+
 VERTICAL BAR


        Vertical bar characters are used to separate alternative patterns.  For
@@ -5934,12 +6085,12 @@
        references,  recursion,  and conditions, can be made by name as well as
        by number.


-       Names consist of up to  32  alphanumeric  characters  and  underscores.
-       Named  capturing  parentheses  are  still  allocated numbers as well as
-       names, exactly as if the names were not present. The PCRE API  provides
-       function calls for extracting the name-to-number translation table from
-       a compiled pattern. There is also a convenience function for extracting
-       a captured substring by name.
+       Names consist of up to 32 alphanumeric characters and underscores,  but
+       must  start  with  a  non-digit.  Named capturing parentheses are still
+       allocated numbers as well as names, exactly as if the  names  were  not
+       present.  The PCRE API provides function calls for extracting the name-
+       to-number translation table from a compiled pattern. There  is  also  a
+       convenience function for extracting a captured substring by name.


        By  default, a name must be unique within a pattern, but it is possible
        to relax this constraint by setting the PCRE_DUPNAMES option at compile
@@ -5967,28 +6118,38 @@
        subpattern it was.


        If you make a back reference to  a  non-unique  named  subpattern  from
-       elsewhere  in the pattern, the one that corresponds to the first occur-
-       rence of the name is used. In the absence of duplicate numbers (see the
-       previous  section) this is the one with the lowest number. If you use a
-       named reference in a condition test (see the section  about  conditions
-       below),  either  to check whether a subpattern has matched, or to check
-       for recursion, all subpatterns with the same name are  tested.  If  the
-       condition  is  true for any one of them, the overall condition is true.
-       This is the same behaviour as testing by number. For further details of
-       the interfaces for handling named subpatterns, see the pcreapi documen-
-       tation.
+       elsewhere  in the pattern, the subpatterns to which the name refers are
+       checked in the order in which they appear in the overall  pattern.  The
+       first one that is set is used for the reference. For example, this pat-
+       tern matches both "foofoo" and "barbar" but not "foobar" or "barfoo":


+         (?:(?<n>foo)|(?<n>bar))\k<n>
+
+
+       If you make a subroutine call to a non-unique named subpattern, the one
+       that  corresponds  to  the first occurrence of the name is used. In the
+       absence of duplicate numbers (see the previous section) this is the one
+       with the lowest number.
+
+       If you use a named reference in a condition test (see the section about
+       conditions below), either to check whether a subpattern has matched, or
+       to  check for recursion, all subpatterns with the same name are tested.
+       If the condition is true for any one of them, the overall condition  is
+       true.  This  is  the  same  behaviour as testing by number. For further
+       details of the interfaces  for  handling  named  subpatterns,  see  the
+       pcreapi documentation.
+
        Warning: You cannot use different names to distinguish between two sub-
-       patterns  with  the same number because PCRE uses only the numbers when
+       patterns with the same number because PCRE uses only the  numbers  when
        matching. For this reason, an error is given at compile time if differ-
-       ent  names  are given to subpatterns with the same number. However, you
-       can give the same name to subpatterns with the same number,  even  when
-       PCRE_DUPNAMES is not set.
+       ent names are given to subpatterns with the same number.  However,  you
+       can always give the same name to subpatterns with the same number, even
+       when PCRE_DUPNAMES is not set.



REPETITION

-       Repetition  is  specified  by  quantifiers, which can follow any of the
+       Repetition is specified by quantifiers, which can  follow  any  of  the
        following items:


          a literal data character
@@ -6002,17 +6163,17 @@
          a parenthesized subpattern (including assertions)
          a subroutine call to a subpattern (recursive or otherwise)


-       The general repetition quantifier specifies a minimum and maximum  num-
-       ber  of  permitted matches, by giving the two numbers in curly brackets
-       (braces), separated by a comma. The numbers must be  less  than  65536,
+       The  general repetition quantifier specifies a minimum and maximum num-
+       ber of permitted matches, by giving the two numbers in  curly  brackets
+       (braces),  separated  by  a comma. The numbers must be less than 65536,
        and the first must be less than or equal to the second. For example:


          z{2,4}


-       matches  "zz",  "zzz",  or  "zzzz". A closing brace on its own is not a
-       special character. If the second number is omitted, but  the  comma  is
-       present,  there  is  no upper limit; if the second number and the comma
-       are both omitted, the quantifier specifies an exact number of  required
+       matches "zz", "zzz", or "zzzz". A closing brace on its  own  is  not  a
+       special  character.  If  the second number is omitted, but the comma is
+       present, there is no upper limit; if the second number  and  the  comma
+       are  both omitted, the quantifier specifies an exact number of required
        matches. Thus


          [aeiou]{3,}
@@ -6021,50 +6182,50 @@


          \d{8}


-       matches  exactly  8  digits. An opening curly bracket that appears in a
-       position where a quantifier is not allowed, or one that does not  match
-       the  syntax of a quantifier, is taken as a literal character. For exam-
+       matches exactly 8 digits. An opening curly bracket that  appears  in  a
+       position  where a quantifier is not allowed, or one that does not match
+       the syntax of a quantifier, is taken as a literal character. For  exam-
        ple, {,6} is not a quantifier, but a literal string of four characters.


        In UTF modes, quantifiers apply to characters rather than to individual
-       data  units. Thus, for example, \x{100}{2} matches two characters, each
+       data units. Thus, for example, \x{100}{2} matches two characters,  each
        of which is represented by a two-byte sequence in a UTF-8 string. Simi-
-       larly,  \X{3} matches three Unicode extended grapheme clusters, each of
-       which may be several data units long (and  they  may  be  of  different
+       larly, \X{3} matches three Unicode extended grapheme clusters, each  of
+       which  may  be  several  data  units long (and they may be of different
        lengths).


        The quantifier {0} is permitted, causing the expression to behave as if
        the previous item and the quantifier were not present. This may be use-
-       ful  for  subpatterns that are referenced as subroutines from elsewhere
+       ful for subpatterns that are referenced as subroutines  from  elsewhere
        in the pattern (but see also the section entitled "Defining subpatterns
-       for  use  by  reference only" below). Items other than subpatterns that
+       for use by reference only" below). Items other  than  subpatterns  that
        have a {0} quantifier are omitted from the compiled pattern.


-       For convenience, the three most common quantifiers have  single-charac-
+       For  convenience, the three most common quantifiers have single-charac-
        ter abbreviations:


          *    is equivalent to {0,}
          +    is equivalent to {1,}
          ?    is equivalent to {0,1}


-       It  is  possible  to construct infinite loops by following a subpattern
+       It is possible to construct infinite loops by  following  a  subpattern
        that can match no characters with a quantifier that has no upper limit,
        for example:


          (a?)*


        Earlier versions of Perl and PCRE used to give an error at compile time
-       for such patterns. However, because there are cases where this  can  be
-       useful,  such  patterns  are now accepted, but if any repetition of the
-       subpattern does in fact match no characters, the loop is forcibly  bro-
+       for  such  patterns. However, because there are cases where this can be
+       useful, such patterns are now accepted, but if any  repetition  of  the
+       subpattern  does in fact match no characters, the loop is forcibly bro-
        ken.


-       By  default,  the quantifiers are "greedy", that is, they match as much
-       as possible (up to the maximum  number  of  permitted  times),  without
-       causing  the  rest of the pattern to fail. The classic example of where
+       By default, the quantifiers are "greedy", that is, they match  as  much
+       as  possible  (up  to  the  maximum number of permitted times), without
+       causing the rest of the pattern to fail. The classic example  of  where
        this gives problems is in trying to match comments in C programs. These
-       appear  between  /*  and  */ and within the comment, individual * and /
-       characters may appear. An attempt to match C comments by  applying  the
+       appear between /* and */ and within the comment,  individual  *  and  /
+       characters  may  appear. An attempt to match C comments by applying the
        pattern


          /\*.*\*/
@@ -6073,19 +6234,19 @@


          /* first comment */  not comment  /* second comment */


-       fails,  because it matches the entire string owing to the greediness of
+       fails, because it matches the entire string owing to the greediness  of
        the .*  item.


-       However, if a quantifier is followed by a question mark, it  ceases  to
+       However,  if  a quantifier is followed by a question mark, it ceases to
        be greedy, and instead matches the minimum number of times possible, so
        the pattern


          /\*.*?\*/


-       does the right thing with the C comments. The meaning  of  the  various
-       quantifiers  is  not  otherwise  changed,  just the preferred number of
-       matches.  Do not confuse this use of question mark with its  use  as  a
-       quantifier  in its own right. Because it has two uses, it can sometimes
+       does  the  right  thing with the C comments. The meaning of the various
+       quantifiers is not otherwise changed,  just  the  preferred  number  of
+       matches.   Do  not  confuse this use of question mark with its use as a
+       quantifier in its own right. Because it has two uses, it can  sometimes
        appear doubled, as in


          \d??\d
@@ -6093,45 +6254,45 @@
        which matches one digit by preference, but can match two if that is the
        only way the rest of the pattern matches.


-       If  the PCRE_UNGREEDY option is set (an option that is not available in
-       Perl), the quantifiers are not greedy by default, but  individual  ones
-       can  be  made  greedy  by following them with a question mark. In other
+       If the PCRE_UNGREEDY option is set (an option that is not available  in
+       Perl),  the  quantifiers are not greedy by default, but individual ones
+       can be made greedy by following them with a  question  mark.  In  other
        words, it inverts the default behaviour.


-       When a parenthesized subpattern is quantified  with  a  minimum  repeat
-       count  that is greater than 1 or with a limited maximum, more memory is
-       required for the compiled pattern, in proportion to  the  size  of  the
+       When  a  parenthesized  subpattern  is quantified with a minimum repeat
+       count that is greater than 1 or with a limited maximum, more memory  is
+       required  for  the  compiled  pattern, in proportion to the size of the
        minimum or maximum.


        If a pattern starts with .* or .{0,} and the PCRE_DOTALL option (equiv-
-       alent to Perl's /s) is set, thus allowing the dot  to  match  newlines,
-       the  pattern  is  implicitly anchored, because whatever follows will be
-       tried against every character position in the subject string, so  there
-       is  no  point  in  retrying the overall match at any position after the
-       first. PCRE normally treats such a pattern as though it  were  preceded
+       alent  to  Perl's  /s) is set, thus allowing the dot to match newlines,
+       the pattern is implicitly anchored, because whatever  follows  will  be
+       tried  against every character position in the subject string, so there
+       is no point in retrying the overall match at  any  position  after  the
+       first.  PCRE  normally treats such a pattern as though it were preceded
        by \A.


-       In  cases  where  it  is known that the subject string contains no new-
-       lines, it is worth setting PCRE_DOTALL in order to  obtain  this  opti-
+       In cases where it is known that the subject  string  contains  no  new-
+       lines,  it  is  worth setting PCRE_DOTALL in order to obtain this opti-
        mization, or alternatively using ^ to indicate anchoring explicitly.


-       However,  there  are  some cases where the optimization cannot be used.
+       However, there are some cases where the optimization  cannot  be  used.
        When .*  is inside capturing parentheses that are the subject of a back
        reference elsewhere in the pattern, a match at the start may fail where
        a later one succeeds. Consider, for example:


          (.*)abc\1


-       If the subject is "xyz123abc123" the match point is the fourth  charac-
+       If  the subject is "xyz123abc123" the match point is the fourth charac-
        ter. For this reason, such a pattern is not implicitly anchored.


-       Another  case where implicit anchoring is not applied is when the lead-
-       ing .* is inside an atomic group. Once again, a match at the start  may
+       Another case where implicit anchoring is not applied is when the  lead-
+       ing  .* is inside an atomic group. Once again, a match at the start may
        fail where a later one succeeds. Consider this pattern:


          (?>.*?a)b


-       It  matches "ab" in the subject "aab". The use of the backtracking con-
+       It matches "ab" in the subject "aab". The use of the backtracking  con-
        trol verbs (*PRUNE) and (*SKIP) also disable this optimization.


        When a capturing subpattern is repeated, the value captured is the sub-
@@ -6140,8 +6301,8 @@
          (tweedle[dume]{3}\s*)+


        has matched "tweedledum tweedledee" the value of the captured substring
-       is "tweedledee". However, if there are  nested  capturing  subpatterns,
-       the  corresponding captured values may have been set in previous itera-
+       is  "tweedledee".  However,  if there are nested capturing subpatterns,
+       the corresponding captured values may have been set in previous  itera-
        tions. For example, after


          /(a|(b))+/
@@ -6151,53 +6312,53 @@


ATOMIC GROUPING AND POSSESSIVE QUANTIFIERS

-       With both maximizing ("greedy") and minimizing ("ungreedy"  or  "lazy")
-       repetition,  failure  of what follows normally causes the repeated item
-       to be re-evaluated to see if a different number of repeats  allows  the
-       rest  of  the pattern to match. Sometimes it is useful to prevent this,
-       either to change the nature of the match, or to cause it  fail  earlier
-       than  it otherwise might, when the author of the pattern knows there is
+       With  both  maximizing ("greedy") and minimizing ("ungreedy" or "lazy")
+       repetition, failure of what follows normally causes the  repeated  item
+       to  be  re-evaluated to see if a different number of repeats allows the
+       rest of the pattern to match. Sometimes it is useful to  prevent  this,
+       either  to  change the nature of the match, or to cause it fail earlier
+       than it otherwise might, when the author of the pattern knows there  is
        no point in carrying on.


-       Consider, for example, the pattern \d+foo when applied to  the  subject
+       Consider,  for  example, the pattern \d+foo when applied to the subject
        line


          123456bar


        After matching all 6 digits and then failing to match "foo", the normal
-       action of the matcher is to try again with only 5 digits  matching  the
-       \d+  item,  and  then  with  4,  and  so on, before ultimately failing.
-       "Atomic grouping" (a term taken from Jeffrey  Friedl's  book)  provides
-       the  means for specifying that once a subpattern has matched, it is not
+       action  of  the matcher is to try again with only 5 digits matching the
+       \d+ item, and then with  4,  and  so  on,  before  ultimately  failing.
+       "Atomic  grouping"  (a  term taken from Jeffrey Friedl's book) provides
+       the means for specifying that once a subpattern has matched, it is  not
        to be re-evaluated in this way.


-       If we use atomic grouping for the previous example, the  matcher  gives
-       up  immediately  on failing to match "foo" the first time. The notation
+       If  we  use atomic grouping for the previous example, the matcher gives
+       up immediately on failing to match "foo" the first time.  The  notation
        is a kind of special parenthesis, starting with (?> as in this example:


          (?>\d+)foo


-       This kind of parenthesis "locks up" the  part of the  pattern  it  con-
-       tains  once  it  has matched, and a failure further into the pattern is
-       prevented from backtracking into it. Backtracking past it  to  previous
+       This  kind  of  parenthesis "locks up" the  part of the pattern it con-
+       tains once it has matched, and a failure further into  the  pattern  is
+       prevented  from  backtracking into it. Backtracking past it to previous
        items, however, works as normal.


-       An  alternative  description  is that a subpattern of this type matches
-       the string of characters that an  identical  standalone  pattern  would
+       An alternative description is that a subpattern of  this  type  matches
+       the  string  of  characters  that an identical standalone pattern would
        match, if anchored at the current point in the subject string.


        Atomic grouping subpatterns are not capturing subpatterns. Simple cases
        such as the above example can be thought of as a maximizing repeat that
-       must  swallow  everything  it can. So, while both \d+ and \d+? are pre-
-       pared to adjust the number of digits they match in order  to  make  the
+       must swallow everything it can. So, while both \d+ and  \d+?  are  pre-
+       pared  to  adjust  the number of digits they match in order to make the
        rest of the pattern match, (?>\d+) can only match an entire sequence of
        digits.


-       Atomic groups in general can of course contain arbitrarily  complicated
-       subpatterns,  and  can  be  nested. However, when the subpattern for an
+       Atomic  groups in general can of course contain arbitrarily complicated
+       subpatterns, and can be nested. However, when  the  subpattern  for  an
        atomic group is just a single repeated item, as in the example above, a
-       simpler  notation,  called  a "possessive quantifier" can be used. This
-       consists of an additional + character  following  a  quantifier.  Using
+       simpler notation, called a "possessive quantifier" can  be  used.  This
+       consists  of  an  additional  + character following a quantifier. Using
        this notation, the previous example can be rewritten as


          \d++foo
@@ -6207,45 +6368,45 @@


          (abc|xyz){2,3}+


-       Possessive  quantifiers  are  always  greedy;  the   setting   of   the
+       Possessive   quantifiers   are   always  greedy;  the  setting  of  the
        PCRE_UNGREEDY option is ignored. They are a convenient notation for the
-       simpler forms of atomic group. However, there is no difference  in  the
-       meaning  of  a  possessive  quantifier and the equivalent atomic group,
-       though there may be a performance  difference;  possessive  quantifiers
+       simpler  forms  of atomic group. However, there is no difference in the
+       meaning of a possessive quantifier and  the  equivalent  atomic  group,
+       though  there  may  be a performance difference; possessive quantifiers
        should be slightly faster.


-       The  possessive  quantifier syntax is an extension to the Perl 5.8 syn-
-       tax.  Jeffrey Friedl originated the idea (and the name)  in  the  first
+       The possessive quantifier syntax is an extension to the Perl  5.8  syn-
+       tax.   Jeffrey  Friedl  originated the idea (and the name) in the first
        edition of his book. Mike McCloskey liked it, so implemented it when he
-       built Sun's Java package, and PCRE copied it from there. It  ultimately
+       built  Sun's Java package, and PCRE copied it from there. It ultimately
        found its way into Perl at release 5.10.


        PCRE has an optimization that automatically "possessifies" certain sim-
-       ple pattern constructs. For example, the sequence  A+B  is  treated  as
-       A++B  because  there is no point in backtracking into a sequence of A's
+       ple  pattern  constructs.  For  example, the sequence A+B is treated as
+       A++B because there is no point in backtracking into a sequence  of  A's
        when B must follow.


-       When a pattern contains an unlimited repeat inside  a  subpattern  that
-       can  itself  be  repeated  an  unlimited number of times, the use of an
-       atomic group is the only way to avoid some  failing  matches  taking  a
+       When  a  pattern  contains an unlimited repeat inside a subpattern that
+       can itself be repeated an unlimited number of  times,  the  use  of  an
+       atomic  group  is  the  only way to avoid some failing matches taking a
        very long time indeed. The pattern


          (\D+|<\d+>)*[!?]


-       matches  an  unlimited number of substrings that either consist of non-
-       digits, or digits enclosed in <>, followed by either ! or  ?.  When  it
+       matches an unlimited number of substrings that either consist  of  non-
+       digits,  or  digits  enclosed in <>, followed by either ! or ?. When it
        matches, it runs quickly. However, if it is applied to


          aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa


-       it  takes  a  long  time  before reporting failure. This is because the
-       string can be divided between the internal \D+ repeat and the  external
-       *  repeat  in  a  large  number of ways, and all have to be tried. (The
-       example uses [!?] rather than a single character at  the  end,  because
-       both  PCRE  and  Perl have an optimization that allows for fast failure
-       when a single character is used. They remember the last single  charac-
-       ter  that  is required for a match, and fail early if it is not present
-       in the string.) If the pattern is changed so that  it  uses  an  atomic
+       it takes a long time before reporting  failure.  This  is  because  the
+       string  can be divided between the internal \D+ repeat and the external
+       * repeat in a large number of ways, and all  have  to  be  tried.  (The
+       example  uses  [!?]  rather than a single character at the end, because
+       both PCRE and Perl have an optimization that allows  for  fast  failure
+       when  a single character is used. They remember the last single charac-
+       ter that is required for a match, and fail early if it is  not  present
+       in  the  string.)  If  the pattern is changed so that it uses an atomic
        group, like this:


          ((?>\D+)|<\d+>)*[!?]
@@ -6257,28 +6418,28 @@


        Outside a character class, a backslash followed by a digit greater than
        0 (and possibly further digits) is a back reference to a capturing sub-
-       pattern  earlier  (that is, to its left) in the pattern, provided there
+       pattern earlier (that is, to its left) in the pattern,  provided  there
        have been that many previous capturing left parentheses.


        However, if the decimal number following the backslash is less than 10,
-       it  is  always  taken  as a back reference, and causes an error only if
-       there are not that many capturing left parentheses in the  entire  pat-
-       tern.  In  other words, the parentheses that are referenced need not be
-       to the left of the reference for numbers less than 10. A "forward  back
-       reference"  of  this  type can make sense when a repetition is involved
-       and the subpattern to the right has participated in an  earlier  itera-
+       it is always taken as a back reference, and causes  an  error  only  if
+       there  are  not that many capturing left parentheses in the entire pat-
+       tern. In other words, the parentheses that are referenced need  not  be
+       to  the left of the reference for numbers less than 10. A "forward back
+       reference" of this type can make sense when a  repetition  is  involved
+       and  the  subpattern to the right has participated in an earlier itera-
        tion.


-       It  is  not  possible to have a numerical "forward back reference" to a
-       subpattern whose number is 10 or  more  using  this  syntax  because  a
-       sequence  such  as  \50 is interpreted as a character defined in octal.
+       It is not possible to have a numerical "forward back  reference"  to  a
+       subpattern  whose  number  is  10  or  more using this syntax because a
+       sequence such as \50 is interpreted as a character  defined  in  octal.
        See the subsection entitled "Non-printing characters" above for further
-       details  of  the  handling of digits following a backslash. There is no
-       such problem when named parentheses are used. A back reference  to  any
+       details of the handling of digits following a backslash.  There  is  no
+       such  problem  when named parentheses are used. A back reference to any
        subpattern is possible using named parentheses (see below).


-       Another  way  of  avoiding  the ambiguity inherent in the use of digits
-       following a backslash is to use the \g  escape  sequence.  This  escape
+       Another way of avoiding the ambiguity inherent in  the  use  of  digits
+       following  a  backslash  is  to use the \g escape sequence. This escape
        must be followed by an unsigned number or a negative number, optionally
        enclosed in braces. These examples are all identical:


@@ -6286,7 +6447,7 @@
          (ring), \g1
          (ring), \g{1}


-       An unsigned number specifies an absolute reference without the  ambigu-
+       An  unsigned number specifies an absolute reference without the ambigu-
        ity that is present in the older syntax. It is also useful when literal
        digits follow the reference. A negative number is a relative reference.
        Consider this example:
@@ -6295,33 +6456,33 @@


        The sequence \g{-1} is a reference to the most recently started captur-
        ing subpattern before \g, that is, is it equivalent to \2 in this exam-
-       ple.   Similarly, \g{-2} would be equivalent to \1. The use of relative
-       references can be helpful in long patterns, and also in  patterns  that
-       are  created  by  joining  together  fragments  that contain references
+       ple.  Similarly, \g{-2} would be equivalent to \1. The use of  relative
+       references  can  be helpful in long patterns, and also in patterns that
+       are created by  joining  together  fragments  that  contain  references
        within themselves.


-       A back reference matches whatever actually matched the  capturing  sub-
-       pattern  in  the  current subject string, rather than anything matching
+       A  back  reference matches whatever actually matched the capturing sub-
+       pattern in the current subject string, rather  than  anything  matching
        the subpattern itself (see "Subpatterns as subroutines" below for a way
        of doing that). So the pattern


          (sens|respons)e and \1ibility


-       matches  "sense and sensibility" and "response and responsibility", but
-       not "sense and responsibility". If caseful matching is in force at  the
-       time  of the back reference, the case of letters is relevant. For exam-
+       matches "sense and sensibility" and "response and responsibility",  but
+       not  "sense and responsibility". If caseful matching is in force at the
+       time of the back reference, the case of letters is relevant. For  exam-
        ple,


          ((?i)rah)\s+\1


-       matches "rah rah" and "RAH RAH", but not "RAH  rah",  even  though  the
+       matches  "rah  rah"  and  "RAH RAH", but not "RAH rah", even though the
        original capturing subpattern is matched caselessly.


-       There  are  several  different ways of writing back references to named
-       subpatterns. The .NET syntax \k{name} and the Perl syntax  \k<name>  or
-       \k'name'  are supported, as is the Python syntax (?P=name). Perl 5.10's
+       There are several different ways of writing back  references  to  named
+       subpatterns.  The  .NET syntax \k{name} and the Perl syntax \k<name> or
+       \k'name' are supported, as is the Python syntax (?P=name). Perl  5.10's
        unified back reference syntax, in which \g can be used for both numeric
-       and  named  references,  is  also supported. We could rewrite the above
+       and named references, is also supported. We  could  rewrite  the  above
        example in any of the following ways:


          (?<p1>(?i)rah)\s+\k<p1>
@@ -6329,84 +6490,84 @@
          (?P<p1>(?i)rah)\s+(?P=p1)
          (?<p1>(?i)rah)\s+\g{p1}


-       A subpattern that is referenced by  name  may  appear  in  the  pattern
+       A  subpattern  that  is  referenced  by  name may appear in the pattern
        before or after the reference.


-       There  may be more than one back reference to the same subpattern. If a
-       subpattern has not actually been used in a particular match,  any  back
+       There may be more than one back reference to the same subpattern. If  a
+       subpattern  has  not actually been used in a particular match, any back
        references to it always fail by default. For example, the pattern


          (a|(bc))\2


-       always  fails  if  it starts to match "a" rather than "bc". However, if
+       always fails if it starts to match "a" rather than  "bc".  However,  if
        the PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT option is set at compile time, a back refer-
        ence to an unset value matches an empty string.


-       Because  there may be many capturing parentheses in a pattern, all dig-
-       its following a backslash are taken as part of a potential back  refer-
-       ence  number.   If  the  pattern continues with a digit character, some
-       delimiter must  be  used  to  terminate  the  back  reference.  If  the
-       PCRE_EXTENDED  option  is  set, this can be white space. Otherwise, the
+       Because there may be many capturing parentheses in a pattern, all  dig-
+       its  following a backslash are taken as part of a potential back refer-
+       ence number.  If the pattern continues with  a  digit  character,  some
+       delimiter  must  be  used  to  terminate  the  back  reference.  If the
+       PCRE_EXTENDED option is set, this can be white  space.  Otherwise,  the
        \g{ syntax or an empty comment (see "Comments" below) can be used.


    Recursive back references


-       A back reference that occurs inside the parentheses to which it  refers
-       fails  when  the subpattern is first used, so, for example, (a\1) never
-       matches.  However, such references can be useful inside  repeated  sub-
+       A  back reference that occurs inside the parentheses to which it refers
+       fails when the subpattern is first used, so, for example,  (a\1)  never
+       matches.   However,  such references can be useful inside repeated sub-
        patterns. For example, the pattern


          (a|b\1)+


        matches any number of "a"s and also "aba", "ababbaa" etc. At each iter-
-       ation of the subpattern,  the  back  reference  matches  the  character
-       string  corresponding  to  the previous iteration. In order for this to
-       work, the pattern must be such that the first iteration does  not  need
-       to  match the back reference. This can be done using alternation, as in
+       ation  of  the  subpattern,  the  back  reference matches the character
+       string corresponding to the previous iteration. In order  for  this  to
+       work,  the  pattern must be such that the first iteration does not need
+       to match the back reference. This can be done using alternation, as  in
        the example above, or by a quantifier with a minimum of zero.


-       Back references of this type cause the group that they reference to  be
-       treated  as  an atomic group.  Once the whole group has been matched, a
-       subsequent matching failure cannot cause backtracking into  the  middle
+       Back  references of this type cause the group that they reference to be
+       treated as an atomic group.  Once the whole group has been  matched,  a
+       subsequent  matching  failure cannot cause backtracking into the middle
        of the group.



ASSERTIONS

-       An  assertion  is  a  test on the characters following or preceding the
-       current matching point that does not actually consume  any  characters.
-       The  simple  assertions  coded  as  \b, \B, \A, \G, \Z, \z, ^ and $ are
+       An assertion is a test on the characters  following  or  preceding  the
+       current  matching  point that does not actually consume any characters.
+       The simple assertions coded as \b, \B, \A, \G, \Z,  \z,  ^  and  $  are
        described above.


-       More complicated assertions are coded as  subpatterns.  There  are  two
-       kinds:  those  that  look  ahead of the current position in the subject
-       string, and those that look  behind  it.  An  assertion  subpattern  is
-       matched  in  the  normal way, except that it does not cause the current
+       More  complicated  assertions  are  coded as subpatterns. There are two
+       kinds: those that look ahead of the current  position  in  the  subject
+       string,  and  those  that  look  behind  it. An assertion subpattern is
+       matched in the normal way, except that it does not  cause  the  current
        matching position to be changed.


-       Assertion subpatterns are not capturing subpatterns. If such an  asser-
-       tion  contains  capturing  subpatterns within it, these are counted for
-       the purposes of numbering the capturing subpatterns in the  whole  pat-
-       tern.  However,  substring  capturing  is carried out only for positive
+       Assertion  subpatterns are not capturing subpatterns. If such an asser-
+       tion contains capturing subpatterns within it, these  are  counted  for
+       the  purposes  of numbering the capturing subpatterns in the whole pat-
+       tern. However, substring capturing is carried  out  only  for  positive
        assertions. (Perl sometimes, but not always, does do capturing in nega-
        tive assertions.)


-       For  compatibility  with  Perl,  assertion subpatterns may be repeated;
-       though it makes no sense to assert the same thing  several  times,  the
-       side  effect  of  capturing  parentheses may occasionally be useful. In
+       For compatibility with Perl, assertion  subpatterns  may  be  repeated;
+       though  it  makes  no sense to assert the same thing several times, the
+       side effect of capturing parentheses may  occasionally  be  useful.  In
        practice, there only three cases:


-       (1) If the quantifier is {0}, the  assertion  is  never  obeyed  during
-       matching.   However,  it  may  contain internal capturing parenthesized
+       (1)  If  the  quantifier  is  {0}, the assertion is never obeyed during
+       matching.  However, it may  contain  internal  capturing  parenthesized
        groups that are called from elsewhere via the subroutine mechanism.


-       (2) If quantifier is {0,n} where n is greater than zero, it is  treated
-       as  if  it  were  {0,1}.  At run time, the rest of the pattern match is
+       (2)  If quantifier is {0,n} where n is greater than zero, it is treated
+       as if it were {0,1}. At run time, the rest  of  the  pattern  match  is
        tried with and without the assertion, the order depending on the greed-
        iness of the quantifier.


-       (3)  If  the minimum repetition is greater than zero, the quantifier is
-       ignored.  The assertion is obeyed just  once  when  encountered  during
+       (3) If the minimum repetition is greater than zero, the  quantifier  is
+       ignored.   The  assertion  is  obeyed just once when encountered during
        matching.


    Lookahead assertions
@@ -6416,38 +6577,38 @@


          \w+(?=;)


-       matches a word followed by a semicolon, but does not include the  semi-
+       matches  a word followed by a semicolon, but does not include the semi-
        colon in the match, and


          foo(?!bar)


-       matches  any  occurrence  of  "foo" that is not followed by "bar". Note
+       matches any occurrence of "foo" that is not  followed  by  "bar".  Note
        that the apparently similar pattern


          (?!foo)bar


-       does not find an occurrence of "bar"  that  is  preceded  by  something
-       other  than "foo"; it finds any occurrence of "bar" whatsoever, because
+       does  not  find  an  occurrence  of "bar" that is preceded by something
+       other than "foo"; it finds any occurrence of "bar" whatsoever,  because
        the assertion (?!foo) is always true when the next three characters are
        "bar". A lookbehind assertion is needed to achieve the other effect.


        If you want to force a matching failure at some point in a pattern, the
-       most convenient way to do it is  with  (?!)  because  an  empty  string
-       always  matches, so an assertion that requires there not to be an empty
+       most  convenient  way  to  do  it  is with (?!) because an empty string
+       always matches, so an assertion that requires there not to be an  empty
        string must always fail.  The backtracking control verb (*FAIL) or (*F)
        is a synonym for (?!).


    Lookbehind assertions


-       Lookbehind  assertions start with (?<= for positive assertions and (?<!
+       Lookbehind assertions start with (?<= for positive assertions and  (?<!
        for negative assertions. For example,


          (?<!foo)bar


-       does find an occurrence of "bar" that is not  preceded  by  "foo".  The
-       contents  of  a  lookbehind  assertion are restricted such that all the
+       does  find  an  occurrence  of "bar" that is not preceded by "foo". The
+       contents of a lookbehind assertion are restricted  such  that  all  the
        strings it matches must have a fixed length. However, if there are sev-
-       eral  top-level  alternatives,  they  do  not all have to have the same
+       eral top-level alternatives, they do not all  have  to  have  the  same
        fixed length. Thus


          (?<=bullock|donkey)
@@ -6456,62 +6617,62 @@


          (?<!dogs?|cats?)


-       causes an error at compile time. Branches that match  different  length
-       strings  are permitted only at the top level of a lookbehind assertion.
+       causes  an  error at compile time. Branches that match different length
+       strings are permitted only at the top level of a lookbehind  assertion.
        This is an extension compared with Perl, which requires all branches to
        match the same length of string. An assertion such as


          (?<=ab(c|de))


-       is  not  permitted,  because  its single top-level branch can match two
+       is not permitted, because its single top-level  branch  can  match  two
        different lengths, but it is acceptable to PCRE if rewritten to use two
        top-level branches:


          (?<=abc|abde)


-       In  some  cases, the escape sequence \K (see above) can be used instead
+       In some cases, the escape sequence \K (see above) can be  used  instead
        of a lookbehind assertion to get round the fixed-length restriction.


-       The implementation of lookbehind assertions is, for  each  alternative,
-       to  temporarily  move the current position back by the fixed length and
+       The  implementation  of lookbehind assertions is, for each alternative,
+       to temporarily move the current position back by the fixed  length  and
        then try to match. If there are insufficient characters before the cur-
        rent position, the assertion fails.


-       In  a UTF mode, PCRE does not allow the \C escape (which matches a sin-
-       gle data unit even in a UTF mode) to appear in  lookbehind  assertions,
-       because  it  makes it impossible to calculate the length of the lookbe-
-       hind. The \X and \R escapes, which can match different numbers of  data
+       In a UTF mode, PCRE does not allow the \C escape (which matches a  sin-
+       gle  data  unit even in a UTF mode) to appear in lookbehind assertions,
+       because it makes it impossible to calculate the length of  the  lookbe-
+       hind.  The \X and \R escapes, which can match different numbers of data
        units, are also not permitted.


-       "Subroutine"  calls  (see below) such as (?2) or (?&X) are permitted in
-       lookbehinds, as long as the subpattern matches a  fixed-length  string.
+       "Subroutine" calls (see below) such as (?2) or (?&X) are  permitted  in
+       lookbehinds,  as  long as the subpattern matches a fixed-length string.
        Recursion, however, is not supported.


-       Possessive  quantifiers  can  be  used  in  conjunction with lookbehind
+       Possessive quantifiers can  be  used  in  conjunction  with  lookbehind
        assertions to specify efficient matching of fixed-length strings at the
        end of subject strings. Consider a simple pattern such as


          abcd$


-       when  applied  to  a  long string that does not match. Because matching
+       when applied to a long string that does  not  match.  Because  matching
        proceeds from left to right, PCRE will look for each "a" in the subject
-       and  then  see  if what follows matches the rest of the pattern. If the
+       and then see if what follows matches the rest of the  pattern.  If  the
        pattern is specified as


          ^.*abcd$


-       the initial .* matches the entire string at first, but when this  fails
+       the  initial .* matches the entire string at first, but when this fails
        (because there is no following "a"), it backtracks to match all but the
-       last character, then all but the last two characters, and so  on.  Once
-       again  the search for "a" covers the entire string, from right to left,
+       last  character,  then all but the last two characters, and so on. Once
+       again the search for "a" covers the entire string, from right to  left,
        so we are no better off. However, if the pattern is written as


          ^.*+(?<=abcd)


-       there can be no backtracking for the .*+ item; it can  match  only  the
-       entire  string.  The subsequent lookbehind assertion does a single test
-       on the last four characters. If it fails, the match fails  immediately.
-       For  long  strings, this approach makes a significant difference to the
+       there  can  be  no backtracking for the .*+ item; it can match only the
+       entire string. The subsequent lookbehind assertion does a  single  test
+       on  the last four characters. If it fails, the match fails immediately.
+       For long strings, this approach makes a significant difference  to  the
        processing time.


    Using multiple assertions
@@ -6520,18 +6681,18 @@


          (?<=\d{3})(?<!999)foo


-       matches "foo" preceded by three digits that are not "999". Notice  that
-       each  of  the  assertions is applied independently at the same point in
-       the subject string. First there is a  check  that  the  previous  three
-       characters  are  all  digits,  and  then there is a check that the same
+       matches  "foo" preceded by three digits that are not "999". Notice that
+       each of the assertions is applied independently at the  same  point  in
+       the  subject  string.  First  there  is a check that the previous three
+       characters are all digits, and then there is  a  check  that  the  same
        three characters are not "999".  This pattern does not match "foo" pre-
-       ceded  by  six  characters,  the first of which are digits and the last
-       three of which are not "999". For example, it  doesn't  match  "123abc-
+       ceded by six characters, the first of which are  digits  and  the  last
+       three  of  which  are not "999". For example, it doesn't match "123abc-
        foo". A pattern to do that is


          (?<=\d{3}...)(?<!999)foo


-       This  time  the  first assertion looks at the preceding six characters,
+       This time the first assertion looks at the  preceding  six  characters,
        checking that the first three are digits, and then the second assertion
        checks that the preceding three characters are not "999".


@@ -6539,29 +6700,29 @@

          (?<=(?<!foo)bar)baz


-       matches  an occurrence of "baz" that is preceded by "bar" which in turn
+       matches an occurrence of "baz" that is preceded by "bar" which in  turn
        is not preceded by "foo", while


          (?<=\d{3}(?!999)...)foo


-       is another pattern that matches "foo" preceded by three digits and  any
+       is  another pattern that matches "foo" preceded by three digits and any
        three characters that are not "999".



CONDITIONAL SUBPATTERNS

-       It  is possible to cause the matching process to obey a subpattern con-
-       ditionally or to choose between two alternative subpatterns,  depending
-       on  the result of an assertion, or whether a specific capturing subpat-
-       tern has already been matched. The two possible  forms  of  conditional
+       It is possible to cause the matching process to obey a subpattern  con-
+       ditionally  or to choose between two alternative subpatterns, depending
+       on the result of an assertion, or whether a specific capturing  subpat-
+       tern  has  already  been matched. The two possible forms of conditional
        subpattern are:


          (?(condition)yes-pattern)
          (?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)


-       If  the  condition is satisfied, the yes-pattern is used; otherwise the
-       no-pattern (if present) is used. If there are more  than  two  alterna-
-       tives  in  the subpattern, a compile-time error occurs. Each of the two
+       If the condition is satisfied, the yes-pattern is used;  otherwise  the
+       no-pattern  (if  present)  is used. If there are more than two alterna-
+       tives in the subpattern, a compile-time error occurs. Each of  the  two
        alternatives may itself contain nested subpatterns of any form, includ-
        ing  conditional  subpatterns;  the  restriction  to  two  alternatives
        applies only at the level of the condition. This pattern fragment is an
@@ -6570,60 +6731,55 @@
          (?(1) (A|B|C) | (D | (?(2)E|F) | E) )



-       There  are  four  kinds of condition: references to subpatterns, refer-
+       There are four kinds of condition: references  to  subpatterns,  refer-
        ences to recursion, a pseudo-condition called DEFINE, and assertions.


    Checking for a used subpattern by number


-       If the text between the parentheses consists of a sequence  of  digits,
+       If  the  text between the parentheses consists of a sequence of digits,
        the condition is true if a capturing subpattern of that number has pre-
-       viously matched. If there is more than one  capturing  subpattern  with
-       the  same  number  (see  the earlier section about duplicate subpattern
-       numbers), the condition is true if any of them have matched. An  alter-
-       native  notation is to precede the digits with a plus or minus sign. In
-       this case, the subpattern number is relative rather than absolute.  The
-       most  recently opened parentheses can be referenced by (?(-1), the next
-       most recent by (?(-2), and so on. Inside loops it can also  make  sense
+       viously  matched.  If  there is more than one capturing subpattern with
+       the same number (see the earlier  section  about  duplicate  subpattern
+       numbers),  the condition is true if any of them have matched. An alter-
+       native notation is to precede the digits with a plus or minus sign.  In
+       this  case, the subpattern number is relative rather than absolute. The
+       most recently opened parentheses can be referenced by (?(-1), the  next
+       most  recent  by (?(-2), and so on. Inside loops it can also make sense
        to refer to subsequent groups. The next parentheses to be opened can be
-       referenced as (?(+1), and so on. (The value zero in any of these  forms
+       referenced  as (?(+1), and so on. (The value zero in any of these forms
        is not used; it provokes a compile-time error.)


-       Consider  the  following  pattern, which contains non-significant white
+       Consider the following pattern, which  contains  non-significant  white
        space to make it more readable (assume the PCRE_EXTENDED option) and to
        divide it into three parts for ease of discussion:


          ( \( )?    [^()]+    (?(1) \) )


-       The  first  part  matches  an optional opening parenthesis, and if that
+       The first part matches an optional opening  parenthesis,  and  if  that
        character is present, sets it as the first captured substring. The sec-
-       ond  part  matches one or more characters that are not parentheses. The
-       third part is a conditional subpattern that tests whether  or  not  the
-       first  set  of  parentheses  matched.  If they did, that is, if subject
-       started with an opening parenthesis, the condition is true, and so  the
-       yes-pattern  is  executed and a closing parenthesis is required. Other-
-       wise, since no-pattern is not present, the subpattern matches  nothing.
-       In  other  words,  this  pattern matches a sequence of non-parentheses,
+       ond part matches one or more characters that are not  parentheses.  The
+       third  part  is  a conditional subpattern that tests whether or not the
+       first set of parentheses matched. If they  did,  that  is,  if  subject
+       started  with an opening parenthesis, the condition is true, and so the
+       yes-pattern is executed and a closing parenthesis is  required.  Other-
+       wise,  since no-pattern is not present, the subpattern matches nothing.
+       In other words, this pattern matches  a  sequence  of  non-parentheses,
        optionally enclosed in parentheses.


-       If you were embedding this pattern in a larger one,  you  could  use  a
+       If  you  were  embedding  this pattern in a larger one, you could use a
        relative reference:


          ...other stuff... ( \( )?    [^()]+    (?(-1) \) ) ...


-       This  makes  the  fragment independent of the parentheses in the larger
+       This makes the fragment independent of the parentheses  in  the  larger
        pattern.


    Checking for a used subpattern by name


-       Perl uses the syntax (?(<name>)...) or (?('name')...)  to  test  for  a
-       used  subpattern  by  name.  For compatibility with earlier versions of
-       PCRE, which had this facility before Perl, the syntax  (?(name)...)  is
-       also  recognized. However, there is a possible ambiguity with this syn-
-       tax, because subpattern names may  consist  entirely  of  digits.  PCRE
-       looks  first for a named subpattern; if it cannot find one and the name
-       consists entirely of digits, PCRE looks for a subpattern of  that  num-
-       ber,  which must be greater than zero. Using subpattern names that con-
-       sist entirely of digits is not recommended.
+       Perl  uses  the  syntax  (?(<name>)...) or (?('name')...) to test for a
+       used subpattern by name. For compatibility  with  earlier  versions  of
+       PCRE,  which  had this facility before Perl, the syntax (?(name)...) is
+       also recognized.


        Rewriting the above example to use a named subpattern gives this:


@@ -7032,111 +7188,116 @@
        tion is called. It is provided with the  number  of  the  callout,  the
        position  in  the pattern, and, optionally, one item of data originally
        supplied by the caller of the matching function. The  callout  function
-       may  cause  matching to proceed, to backtrack, or to fail altogether. A
-       complete description of the interface to the callout function is  given
-       in the pcrecallout documentation.
+       may cause matching to proceed, to backtrack, or to fail altogether.


+       By  default,  PCRE implements a number of optimizations at compile time
+       and matching time, and one side-effect is that sometimes  callouts  are
+       skipped.  If  you need all possible callouts to happen, you need to set
+       options that disable the relevant optimizations. More  details,  and  a
+       complete  description  of  the  interface  to the callout function, are
+       given in the pcrecallout documentation.


+
BACKTRACKING CONTROL

-       Perl  5.10 introduced a number of "Special Backtracking Control Verbs",
-       which are still described in the Perl  documentation  as  "experimental
-       and  subject to change or removal in a future version of Perl". It goes
-       on to say: "Their usage in production code should  be  noted  to  avoid
-       problems  during upgrades." The same remarks apply to the PCRE features
+       Perl 5.10 introduced a number of "Special Backtracking Control  Verbs",
+       which  are  still  described in the Perl documentation as "experimental
+       and subject to change or removal in a future version of Perl". It  goes
+       on  to  say:  "Their  usage in production code should be noted to avoid
+       problems during upgrades." The same remarks apply to the PCRE  features
        described in this section.


-       The new verbs make use of what was previously invalid syntax: an  open-
+       The  new verbs make use of what was previously invalid syntax: an open-
        ing parenthesis followed by an asterisk. They are generally of the form
-       (*VERB) or (*VERB:NAME). Some may take either form,  possibly  behaving
-       differently  depending  on  whether or not a name is present. A name is
+       (*VERB)  or  (*VERB:NAME). Some may take either form, possibly behaving
+       differently depending on whether or not a name is present.  A  name  is
        any sequence of characters that does not include a closing parenthesis.
        The maximum length of name is 255 in the 8-bit library and 65535 in the
-       16-bit and 32-bit libraries. If the name is  empty,  that  is,  if  the
-       closing  parenthesis immediately follows the colon, the effect is as if
-       the colon were not there.  Any number of these verbs  may  occur  in  a
+       16-bit  and  32-bit  libraries.  If  the name is empty, that is, if the
+       closing parenthesis immediately follows the colon, the effect is as  if
+       the  colon  were  not  there.  Any number of these verbs may occur in a
        pattern.


-       Since  these  verbs  are  specifically related to backtracking, most of
-       them can be used only when the pattern is to be matched  using  one  of
-       the  traditional  matching  functions, because these use a backtracking
-       algorithm. With the exception of (*FAIL), which behaves like a  failing
-       negative  assertion,  the  backtracking control verbs cause an error if
+       Since these verbs are specifically related  to  backtracking,  most  of
+       them  can  be  used only when the pattern is to be matched using one of
+       the traditional matching functions, because these  use  a  backtracking
+       algorithm.  With the exception of (*FAIL), which behaves like a failing
+       negative assertion, the backtracking control verbs cause  an  error  if
        encountered by a DFA matching function.


-       The behaviour of these verbs in repeated  groups,  assertions,  and  in
+       The  behaviour  of  these  verbs in repeated groups, assertions, and in
        subpatterns called as subroutines (whether or not recursively) is docu-
        mented below.


    Optimizations that affect backtracking verbs


-       PCRE contains some optimizations that are used to speed up matching  by
+       PCRE  contains some optimizations that are used to speed up matching by
        running some checks at the start of each match attempt. For example, it
-       may know the minimum length of matching subject, or that  a  particular
+       may  know  the minimum length of matching subject, or that a particular
        character must be present. When one of these optimizations bypasses the
-       running of a match,  any  included  backtracking  verbs  will  not,  of
+       running  of  a  match,  any  included  backtracking  verbs will not, of
        course, be processed. You can suppress the start-of-match optimizations
-       by setting the PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE  option  when  calling  pcre_com-
+       by  setting  the  PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE  option when calling pcre_com-
        pile() or pcre_exec(), or by starting the pattern with (*NO_START_OPT).
        There is more discussion of this option in the section entitled "Option
        bits for pcre_exec()" in the pcreapi documentation.


-       Experiments  with  Perl  suggest that it too has similar optimizations,
+       Experiments with Perl suggest that it too  has  similar  optimizations,
        sometimes leading to anomalous results.


    Verbs that act immediately


-       The following verbs act as soon as they are encountered. They  may  not
+       The  following  verbs act as soon as they are encountered. They may not
        be followed by a name.


           (*ACCEPT)


-       This  verb causes the match to end successfully, skipping the remainder
-       of the pattern. However, when it is inside a subpattern that is  called
-       as  a  subroutine, only that subpattern is ended successfully. Matching
+       This verb causes the match to end successfully, skipping the  remainder
+       of  the pattern. However, when it is inside a subpattern that is called
+       as a subroutine, only that subpattern is ended  successfully.  Matching
        then continues at the outer level. If (*ACCEPT) in triggered in a posi-
-       tive  assertion,  the  assertion succeeds; in a negative assertion, the
+       tive assertion, the assertion succeeds; in a  negative  assertion,  the
        assertion fails.


-       If (*ACCEPT) is inside capturing parentheses, the data so far  is  cap-
+       If  (*ACCEPT)  is inside capturing parentheses, the data so far is cap-
        tured. For example:


          A((?:A|B(*ACCEPT)|C)D)


-       This  matches  "AB", "AAD", or "ACD"; when it matches "AB", "B" is cap-
+       This matches "AB", "AAD", or "ACD"; when it matches "AB", "B"  is  cap-
        tured by the outer parentheses.


          (*FAIL) or (*F)


-       This verb causes a matching failure, forcing backtracking to occur.  It
-       is  equivalent to (?!) but easier to read. The Perl documentation notes
-       that it is probably useful only when combined  with  (?{})  or  (??{}).
-       Those  are,  of course, Perl features that are not present in PCRE. The
-       nearest equivalent is the callout feature, as for example in this  pat-
+       This  verb causes a matching failure, forcing backtracking to occur. It
+       is equivalent to (?!) but easier to read. The Perl documentation  notes
+       that  it  is  probably  useful only when combined with (?{}) or (??{}).
+       Those are, of course, Perl features that are not present in  PCRE.  The
+       nearest  equivalent is the callout feature, as for example in this pat-
        tern:


          a+(?C)(*FAIL)


-       A  match  with the string "aaaa" always fails, but the callout is taken
+       A match with the string "aaaa" always fails, but the callout  is  taken
        before each backtrack happens (in this example, 10 times).


    Recording which path was taken


-       There is one verb whose main purpose  is  to  track  how  a  match  was
-       arrived  at,  though  it  also  has a secondary use in conjunction with
+       There  is  one  verb  whose  main  purpose  is to track how a match was
+       arrived at, though it also has a  secondary  use  in  conjunction  with
        advancing the match starting point (see (*SKIP) below).


          (*MARK:NAME) or (*:NAME)


-       A name is always  required  with  this  verb.  There  may  be  as  many
-       instances  of  (*MARK) as you like in a pattern, and their names do not
+       A  name  is  always  required  with  this  verb.  There  may be as many
+       instances of (*MARK) as you like in a pattern, and their names  do  not
        have to be unique.


-       When a match succeeds, the name of the  last-encountered  (*MARK:NAME),
-       (*PRUNE:NAME),  or  (*THEN:NAME) on the matching path is passed back to
-       the caller as  described  in  the  section  entitled  "Extra  data  for
-       pcre_exec()"  in  the  pcreapi  documentation.  Here  is  an example of
-       pcretest output, where the /K modifier requests the retrieval and  out-
+       When  a  match succeeds, the name of the last-encountered (*MARK:NAME),
+       (*PRUNE:NAME), or (*THEN:NAME) on the matching path is passed  back  to
+       the  caller  as  described  in  the  section  entitled  "Extra data for
+       pcre_exec()" in the  pcreapi  documentation.  Here  is  an  example  of
+       pcretest  output, where the /K modifier requests the retrieval and out-
        putting of (*MARK) data:


            re> /X(*MARK:A)Y|X(*MARK:B)Z/K
@@ -7148,73 +7309,73 @@
          MK: B


        The (*MARK) name is tagged with "MK:" in this output, and in this exam-
-       ple it indicates which of the two alternatives matched. This is a  more
-       efficient  way of obtaining this information than putting each alterna-
+       ple  it indicates which of the two alternatives matched. This is a more
+       efficient way of obtaining this information than putting each  alterna-
        tive in its own capturing parentheses.


-       If a verb with a name is encountered in a positive  assertion  that  is
-       true,  the  name  is recorded and passed back if it is the last-encoun-
+       If  a  verb  with a name is encountered in a positive assertion that is
+       true, the name is recorded and passed back if it  is  the  last-encoun-
        tered. This does not happen for negative assertions or failing positive
        assertions.


-       After  a  partial match or a failed match, the last encountered name in
+       After a partial match or a failed match, the last encountered  name  in
        the entire match process is returned. For example:


            re> /X(*MARK:A)Y|X(*MARK:B)Z/K
          data> XP
          No match, mark = B


-       Note that in this unanchored example the  mark  is  retained  from  the
+       Note  that  in  this  unanchored  example the mark is retained from the
        match attempt that started at the letter "X" in the subject. Subsequent
        match attempts starting at "P" and then with an empty string do not get
        as far as the (*MARK) item, but nevertheless do not reset it.


-       If  you  are  interested  in  (*MARK)  values after failed matches, you
-       should probably set the PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE option  (see  above)  to
+       If you are interested in  (*MARK)  values  after  failed  matches,  you
+       should  probably  set  the PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE option (see above) to
        ensure that the match is always attempted.


    Verbs that act after backtracking


        The following verbs do nothing when they are encountered. Matching con-
-       tinues with what follows, but if there is no subsequent match,  causing
-       a  backtrack  to  the  verb, a failure is forced. That is, backtracking
-       cannot pass to the left of the verb. However, when one of  these  verbs
+       tinues  with what follows, but if there is no subsequent match, causing
+       a backtrack to the verb, a failure is  forced.  That  is,  backtracking
+       cannot  pass  to the left of the verb. However, when one of these verbs
        appears inside an atomic group or an assertion that is true, its effect
-       is confined to that group, because once the  group  has  been  matched,
-       there  is never any backtracking into it. In this situation, backtrack-
-       ing can "jump back" to the left of the entire atomic  group  or  asser-
-       tion.  (Remember  also,  as  stated  above, that this localization also
+       is  confined  to  that  group, because once the group has been matched,
+       there is never any backtracking into it. In this situation,  backtrack-
+       ing  can  "jump  back" to the left of the entire atomic group or asser-
+       tion. (Remember also, as stated  above,  that  this  localization  also
        applies in subroutine calls.)


-       These verbs differ in exactly what kind of failure  occurs  when  back-
-       tracking  reaches  them.  The behaviour described below is what happens
-       when the verb is not in a subroutine or an assertion.  Subsequent  sec-
+       These  verbs  differ  in exactly what kind of failure occurs when back-
+       tracking reaches them. The behaviour described below  is  what  happens
+       when  the  verb is not in a subroutine or an assertion. Subsequent sec-
        tions cover these special cases.


          (*COMMIT)


-       This  verb, which may not be followed by a name, causes the whole match
+       This verb, which may not be followed by a name, causes the whole  match
        to fail outright if there is a later matching failure that causes back-
-       tracking  to  reach  it.  Even if the pattern is unanchored, no further
+       tracking to reach it. Even if the pattern  is  unanchored,  no  further
        attempts to find a match by advancing the starting point take place. If
-       (*COMMIT)  is  the  only backtracking verb that is encountered, once it
+       (*COMMIT) is the only backtracking verb that is  encountered,  once  it
        has been passed pcre_exec() is committed to finding a match at the cur-
        rent starting point, or not at all. For example:


          a+(*COMMIT)b


-       This  matches  "xxaab" but not "aacaab". It can be thought of as a kind
+       This matches "xxaab" but not "aacaab". It can be thought of as  a  kind
        of dynamic anchor, or "I've started, so I must finish." The name of the
-       most  recently passed (*MARK) in the path is passed back when (*COMMIT)
+       most recently passed (*MARK) in the path is passed back when  (*COMMIT)
        forces a match failure.


-       If there is more than one backtracking verb in a pattern,  a  different
-       one  that  follows  (*COMMIT) may be triggered first, so merely passing
+       If  there  is more than one backtracking verb in a pattern, a different
+       one that follows (*COMMIT) may be triggered first,  so  merely  passing
        (*COMMIT) during a match does not always guarantee that a match must be
        at this starting point.


-       Note  that  (*COMMIT)  at  the start of a pattern is not the same as an
-       anchor, unless PCRE's start-of-match optimizations are turned  off,  as
+       Note that (*COMMIT) at the start of a pattern is not  the  same  as  an
+       anchor,  unless  PCRE's start-of-match optimizations are turned off, as
        shown in this pcretest example:


            re> /(*COMMIT)abc/
@@ -7223,205 +7384,205 @@
          xyzabc\Y
          No match


-       PCRE  knows  that  any  match  must start with "a", so the optimization
-       skips along the subject to "a" before running the first match  attempt,
-       which  succeeds.  When the optimization is disabled by the \Y escape in
+       PCRE knows that any match must start  with  "a",  so  the  optimization
+       skips  along the subject to "a" before running the first match attempt,
+       which succeeds. When the optimization is disabled by the \Y  escape  in
        the second subject, the match starts at "x" and so the (*COMMIT) causes
        it to fail without trying any other starting points.


          (*PRUNE) or (*PRUNE:NAME)


-       This  verb causes the match to fail at the current starting position in
+       This verb causes the match to fail at the current starting position  in
        the subject if there is a later matching failure that causes backtrack-
-       ing  to  reach it. If the pattern is unanchored, the normal "bumpalong"
-       advance to the next starting character then happens.  Backtracking  can
-       occur  as  usual to the left of (*PRUNE), before it is reached, or when
-       matching to the right of (*PRUNE), but if there  is  no  match  to  the
-       right,  backtracking cannot cross (*PRUNE). In simple cases, the use of
-       (*PRUNE) is just an alternative to an atomic group or possessive  quan-
+       ing to reach it. If the pattern is unanchored, the  normal  "bumpalong"
+       advance  to  the next starting character then happens. Backtracking can
+       occur as usual to the left of (*PRUNE), before it is reached,  or  when
+       matching  to  the  right  of  (*PRUNE), but if there is no match to the
+       right, backtracking cannot cross (*PRUNE). In simple cases, the use  of
+       (*PRUNE)  is just an alternative to an atomic group or possessive quan-
        tifier, but there are some uses of (*PRUNE) that cannot be expressed in
-       any other way. In an anchored pattern (*PRUNE) has the same  effect  as
+       any  other  way. In an anchored pattern (*PRUNE) has the same effect as
        (*COMMIT).


        The   behaviour   of   (*PRUNE:NAME)   is   the   not   the   same   as
-       (*MARK:NAME)(*PRUNE).  It is like (*MARK:NAME)  in  that  the  name  is
-       remembered  for  passing  back  to  the  caller.  However, (*SKIP:NAME)
+       (*MARK:NAME)(*PRUNE).   It  is  like  (*MARK:NAME)  in that the name is
+       remembered for  passing  back  to  the  caller.  However,  (*SKIP:NAME)
        searches only for names set with (*MARK).


          (*SKIP)


-       This verb, when given without a name, is like (*PRUNE), except that  if
-       the  pattern  is unanchored, the "bumpalong" advance is not to the next
+       This  verb, when given without a name, is like (*PRUNE), except that if
+       the pattern is unanchored, the "bumpalong" advance is not to  the  next
        character, but to the position in the subject where (*SKIP) was encoun-
-       tered.  (*SKIP)  signifies that whatever text was matched leading up to
+       tered. (*SKIP) signifies that whatever text was matched leading  up  to
        it cannot be part of a successful match. Consider:


          a+(*SKIP)b


-       If the subject is "aaaac...",  after  the  first  match  attempt  fails
-       (starting  at  the  first  character in the string), the starting point
+       If  the  subject  is  "aaaac...",  after  the first match attempt fails
+       (starting at the first character in the  string),  the  starting  point
        skips on to start the next attempt at "c". Note that a possessive quan-
-       tifer  does not have the same effect as this example; although it would
-       suppress backtracking  during  the  first  match  attempt,  the  second
-       attempt  would  start at the second character instead of skipping on to
+       tifer does not have the same effect as this example; although it  would
+       suppress  backtracking  during  the  first  match  attempt,  the second
+       attempt would start at the second character instead of skipping  on  to
        "c".


          (*SKIP:NAME)


        When (*SKIP) has an associated name, its behaviour is modified. When it
        is triggered, the previous path through the pattern is searched for the
-       most recent (*MARK) that has the  same  name.  If  one  is  found,  the
+       most  recent  (*MARK)  that  has  the  same  name. If one is found, the
        "bumpalong" advance is to the subject position that corresponds to that
        (*MARK) instead of to where (*SKIP) was encountered. If no (*MARK) with
        a matching name is found, the (*SKIP) is ignored.


-       Note  that (*SKIP:NAME) searches only for names set by (*MARK:NAME). It
+       Note that (*SKIP:NAME) searches only for names set by (*MARK:NAME).  It
        ignores names that are set by (*PRUNE:NAME) or (*THEN:NAME).


          (*THEN) or (*THEN:NAME)


-       This verb causes a skip to the next innermost  alternative  when  back-
-       tracking  reaches  it.  That  is,  it  cancels any further backtracking
-       within the current alternative. Its name  comes  from  the  observation
+       This  verb  causes  a skip to the next innermost alternative when back-
+       tracking reaches it. That  is,  it  cancels  any  further  backtracking
+       within  the  current  alternative.  Its name comes from the observation
        that it can be used for a pattern-based if-then-else block:


          ( COND1 (*THEN) FOO | COND2 (*THEN) BAR | COND3 (*THEN) BAZ ) ...


-       If  the COND1 pattern matches, FOO is tried (and possibly further items
-       after the end of the group if FOO succeeds); on  failure,  the  matcher
-       skips  to  the second alternative and tries COND2, without backtracking
-       into COND1. If that succeeds and BAR fails, COND3 is tried.  If  subse-
-       quently  BAZ fails, there are no more alternatives, so there is a back-
-       track to whatever came before the  entire  group.  If  (*THEN)  is  not
+       If the COND1 pattern matches, FOO is tried (and possibly further  items
+       after  the  end  of the group if FOO succeeds); on failure, the matcher
+       skips to the second alternative and tries COND2,  without  backtracking
+       into  COND1.  If that succeeds and BAR fails, COND3 is tried. If subse-
+       quently BAZ fails, there are no more alternatives, so there is a  back-
+       track  to  whatever  came  before  the  entire group. If (*THEN) is not
        inside an alternation, it acts like (*PRUNE).


-       The    behaviour   of   (*THEN:NAME)   is   the   not   the   same   as
-       (*MARK:NAME)(*THEN).  It is like  (*MARK:NAME)  in  that  the  name  is
-       remembered  for  passing  back  to  the  caller.  However, (*SKIP:NAME)
+       The   behaviour   of   (*THEN:NAME)   is   the   not   the   same    as
+       (*MARK:NAME)(*THEN).   It  is  like  (*MARK:NAME)  in  that the name is
+       remembered for  passing  back  to  the  caller.  However,  (*SKIP:NAME)
        searches only for names set with (*MARK).


-       A subpattern that does not contain a | character is just a part of  the
-       enclosing  alternative;  it  is  not a nested alternation with only one
-       alternative. The effect of (*THEN) extends beyond such a subpattern  to
-       the  enclosing alternative. Consider this pattern, where A, B, etc. are
-       complex pattern fragments that do not contain any | characters at  this
+       A  subpattern that does not contain a | character is just a part of the
+       enclosing alternative; it is not a nested  alternation  with  only  one
+       alternative.  The effect of (*THEN) extends beyond such a subpattern to
+       the enclosing alternative. Consider this pattern, where A, B, etc.  are
+       complex  pattern fragments that do not contain any | characters at this
        level:


          A (B(*THEN)C) | D


-       If  A and B are matched, but there is a failure in C, matching does not
+       If A and B are matched, but there is a failure in C, matching does  not
        backtrack into A; instead it moves to the next alternative, that is, D.
-       However,  if the subpattern containing (*THEN) is given an alternative,
+       However, if the subpattern containing (*THEN) is given an  alternative,
        it behaves differently:


          A (B(*THEN)C | (*FAIL)) | D


-       The effect of (*THEN) is now confined to the inner subpattern. After  a
+       The  effect of (*THEN) is now confined to the inner subpattern. After a
        failure in C, matching moves to (*FAIL), which causes the whole subpat-
-       tern to fail because there are no more alternatives  to  try.  In  this
+       tern  to  fail  because  there are no more alternatives to try. In this
        case, matching does now backtrack into A.


-       Note  that  a  conditional  subpattern  is not considered as having two
-       alternatives, because only one is ever used.  In  other  words,  the  |
+       Note that a conditional subpattern is  not  considered  as  having  two
+       alternatives,  because  only  one  is  ever used. In other words, the |
        character in a conditional subpattern has a different meaning. Ignoring
        white space, consider:


          ^.*? (?(?=a) a | b(*THEN)c )


-       If the subject is "ba", this pattern does not  match.  Because  .*?  is
-       ungreedy,  it  initially  matches  zero characters. The condition (?=a)
-       then fails, the character "b" is matched,  but  "c"  is  not.  At  this
-       point,  matching does not backtrack to .*? as might perhaps be expected
-       from the presence of the | character.  The  conditional  subpattern  is
+       If  the  subject  is  "ba", this pattern does not match. Because .*? is
+       ungreedy, it initially matches zero  characters.  The  condition  (?=a)
+       then  fails,  the  character  "b"  is  matched, but "c" is not. At this
+       point, matching does not backtrack to .*? as might perhaps be  expected
+       from  the  presence  of  the | character. The conditional subpattern is
        part of the single alternative that comprises the whole pattern, and so
-       the match fails. (If there was a backtrack into  .*?,  allowing  it  to
+       the  match  fails.  (If  there was a backtrack into .*?, allowing it to
        match "b", the match would succeed.)


-       The  verbs just described provide four different "strengths" of control
+       The verbs just described provide four different "strengths" of  control
        when subsequent matching fails. (*THEN) is the weakest, carrying on the
-       match  at  the next alternative. (*PRUNE) comes next, failing the match
-       at the current starting position, but allowing an advance to  the  next
-       character  (for an unanchored pattern). (*SKIP) is similar, except that
+       match at the next alternative. (*PRUNE) comes next, failing  the  match
+       at  the  current starting position, but allowing an advance to the next
+       character (for an unanchored pattern). (*SKIP) is similar, except  that
        the advance may be more than one character. (*COMMIT) is the strongest,
        causing the entire match to fail.


    More than one backtracking verb


-       If  more  than  one  backtracking verb is present in a pattern, the one
-       that is backtracked onto first acts. For example,  consider  this  pat-
+       If more than one backtracking verb is present in  a  pattern,  the  one
+       that  is  backtracked  onto first acts. For example, consider this pat-
        tern, where A, B, etc. are complex pattern fragments:


          (A(*COMMIT)B(*THEN)C|ABD)


-       If  A matches but B fails, the backtrack to (*COMMIT) causes the entire
+       If A matches but B fails, the backtrack to (*COMMIT) causes the  entire
        match to fail. However, if A and B match, but C fails, the backtrack to
-       (*THEN)  causes  the next alternative (ABD) to be tried. This behaviour
-       is consistent, but is not always the same as Perl's. It means  that  if
-       two  or  more backtracking verbs appear in succession, all the the last
+       (*THEN) causes the next alternative (ABD) to be tried.  This  behaviour
+       is  consistent,  but is not always the same as Perl's. It means that if
+       two or more backtracking verbs appear in succession, all the  the  last
        of them has no effect. Consider this example:


          ...(*COMMIT)(*PRUNE)...


        If there is a matching failure to the right, backtracking onto (*PRUNE)
-       cases it to be triggered, and its action is taken. There can never be a
-       backtrack onto (*COMMIT).
+       causes it to be triggered, and its action is taken. There can never  be
+       a backtrack onto (*COMMIT).


    Backtracking verbs in repeated groups


-       PCRE differs from  Perl  in  its  handling  of  backtracking  verbs  in
+       PCRE  differs  from  Perl  in  its  handling  of  backtracking verbs in
        repeated groups. For example, consider:


          /(a(*COMMIT)b)+ac/


-       If  the  subject  is  "abac",  Perl matches, but PCRE fails because the
+       If the subject is "abac", Perl matches,  but  PCRE  fails  because  the
        (*COMMIT) in the second repeat of the group acts.


    Backtracking verbs in assertions


-       (*FAIL) in an assertion has its normal effect: it forces  an  immediate
+       (*FAIL)  in  an assertion has its normal effect: it forces an immediate
        backtrack.


        (*ACCEPT) in a positive assertion causes the assertion to succeed with-
-       out any further processing. In a negative assertion,  (*ACCEPT)  causes
+       out  any  further processing. In a negative assertion, (*ACCEPT) causes
        the assertion to fail without any further processing.


-       The  other  backtracking verbs are not treated specially if they appear
-       in a positive assertion. In  particular,  (*THEN)  skips  to  the  next
-       alternative  in  the  innermost  enclosing group that has alternations,
+       The other backtracking verbs are not treated specially if  they  appear
+       in  a  positive  assertion.  In  particular,  (*THEN) skips to the next
+       alternative in the innermost enclosing  group  that  has  alternations,
        whether or not this is within the assertion.


-       Negative assertions are, however, different, in order  to  ensure  that
-       changing  a  positive  assertion  into a negative assertion changes its
+       Negative  assertions  are,  however, different, in order to ensure that
+       changing a positive assertion into a  negative  assertion  changes  its
        result. Backtracking into (*COMMIT), (*SKIP), or (*PRUNE) causes a neg-
        ative assertion to be true, without considering any further alternative
        branches in the assertion.  Backtracking into (*THEN) causes it to skip
-       to  the next enclosing alternative within the assertion (the normal be-
-       haviour), but if the assertion  does  not  have  such  an  alternative,
+       to the next enclosing alternative within the assertion (the normal  be-
+       haviour),  but  if  the  assertion  does  not have such an alternative,
        (*THEN) behaves like (*PRUNE).


    Backtracking verbs in subroutines


-       These  behaviours  occur whether or not the subpattern is called recur-
+       These behaviours occur whether or not the subpattern is  called  recur-
        sively.  Perl's treatment of subroutines is different in some cases.


-       (*FAIL) in a subpattern called as a subroutine has its  normal  effect:
+       (*FAIL)  in  a subpattern called as a subroutine has its normal effect:
        it forces an immediate backtrack.


-       (*ACCEPT)  in a subpattern called as a subroutine causes the subroutine
-       match to succeed without any further processing. Matching then  contin-
+       (*ACCEPT) in a subpattern called as a subroutine causes the  subroutine
+       match  to succeed without any further processing. Matching then contin-
        ues after the subroutine call.


        (*COMMIT), (*SKIP), and (*PRUNE) in a subpattern called as a subroutine
        cause the subroutine match to fail.


-       (*THEN) skips to the next alternative in the innermost enclosing  group
-       within  the subpattern that has alternatives. If there is no such group
+       (*THEN)  skips to the next alternative in the innermost enclosing group
+       within the subpattern that has alternatives. If there is no such  group
        within the subpattern, (*THEN) causes the subroutine match to fail.



SEE ALSO

-       pcreapi(3), pcrecallout(3),  pcrematching(3),  pcresyntax(3),  pcre(3),
+       pcreapi(3),  pcrecallout(3),  pcrematching(3),  pcresyntax(3), pcre(3),
        pcre16(3), pcre32(3).



@@ -7434,11 +7595,11 @@

REVISION

-       Last updated: 26 April 2013
+       Last updated: 12 November 2013
        Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCRESYNTAX(3)              Library Functions Manual              PCRESYNTAX(3)



@@ -7468,11 +7629,16 @@
          \n         newline (hex 0A)
          \r         carriage return (hex 0D)
          \t         tab (hex 09)
+         \0dd       character with octal code 0dd
          \ddd       character with octal code ddd, or backreference
+         \o{ddd..}  character with octal code ddd..
          \xhh       character with hex code hh
          \x{hhh..}  character with hex code hhh..


+       Note that \0dd is always an octal code, and that \8 and \9 are the lit-
+       eral characters "8" and "9".


+
CHARACTER TYPES

          .          any character except newline;
@@ -7494,9 +7660,12 @@
          \W         a "non-word" character
          \X         a Unicode extended grapheme cluster


-       In  PCRE,  by  default, \d, \D, \s, \S, \w, and \W recognize only ASCII
-       characters, even in a UTF mode. However, this can be changed by setting
-       the PCRE_UCP option.
+       By default, \d, \s, and \w match only ASCII characters, even  in  UTF-8
+       mode  or  in  the 16- bit and 32-bit libraries. However, if locale-spe-
+       cific matching is happening, \s and \w may also match  characters  with
+       code  points  in  the range 128-255. If the PCRE_UCP option is set, the
+       behaviour of these escape sequences is changed to use  Unicode  proper-
+       ties and they match many more characters.



GENERAL CATEGORY PROPERTIES FOR \p and \P
@@ -7551,29 +7720,32 @@

          Xan        Alphanumeric: union of properties L and N
          Xps        POSIX space: property Z or tab, NL, VT, FF, CR
-         Xsp        Perl space: property Z or tab, NL, FF, CR
+         Xsp        Perl space: property Z or tab, NL, VT, FF, CR
          Xuc        Univerally-named character: one that can be
                       represented by a Universal Character Name
          Xwd        Perl word: property Xan or underscore


+       Perl and POSIX space are now the same. Perl added VT to its space char-
+       acter set at release 5.18 and PCRE changed at release 8.34.


+
SCRIPT NAMES FOR \p AND \P

-       Arabic,  Armenian,  Avestan, Balinese, Bamum, Batak, Bengali, Bopomofo,
-       Brahmi, Braille, Buginese, Buhid, Canadian_Aboriginal, Carian,  Chakma,
-       Cham,  Cherokee, Common, Coptic, Cuneiform, Cypriot, Cyrillic, Deseret,
-       Devanagari,  Egyptian_Hieroglyphs,  Ethiopic,   Georgian,   Glagolitic,
-       Gothic,  Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han, Hangul, Hanunoo, Hebrew, Hira-
-       gana,  Imperial_Aramaic,  Inherited,  Inscriptional_Pahlavi,   Inscrip-
-       tional_Parthian,   Javanese,   Kaithi,   Kannada,  Katakana,  Kayah_Li,
-       Kharoshthi, Khmer, Lao, Latin, Lepcha, Limbu, Linear_B,  Lisu,  Lycian,
+       Arabic, Armenian, Avestan, Balinese, Bamum, Batak,  Bengali,  Bopomofo,
+       Brahmi,  Braille, Buginese, Buhid, Canadian_Aboriginal, Carian, Chakma,
+       Cham, Cherokee, Common, Coptic, Cuneiform, Cypriot, Cyrillic,  Deseret,
+       Devanagari,   Egyptian_Hieroglyphs,   Ethiopic,  Georgian,  Glagolitic,
+       Gothic, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han, Hangul, Hanunoo, Hebrew,  Hira-
+       gana,   Imperial_Aramaic,  Inherited,  Inscriptional_Pahlavi,  Inscrip-
+       tional_Parthian,  Javanese,  Kaithi,   Kannada,   Katakana,   Kayah_Li,
+       Kharoshthi,  Khmer,  Lao, Latin, Lepcha, Limbu, Linear_B, Lisu, Lycian,
        Lydian,    Malayalam,    Mandaic,    Meetei_Mayek,    Meroitic_Cursive,
-       Meroitic_Hieroglyphs,  Miao,  Mongolian,  Myanmar,  New_Tai_Lue,   Nko,
-       Ogham,    Old_Italic,   Old_Persian,   Old_South_Arabian,   Old_Turkic,
-       Ol_Chiki, Oriya, Osmanya, Phags_Pa, Phoenician, Rejang, Runic,  Samari-
-       tan,  Saurashtra,  Sharada,  Shavian, Sinhala, Sora_Sompeng, Sundanese,
-       Syloti_Nagri, Syriac, Tagalog, Tagbanwa,  Tai_Le,  Tai_Tham,  Tai_Viet,
-       Takri,  Tamil,  Telugu, Thaana, Thai, Tibetan, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vai,
+       Meroitic_Hieroglyphs,   Miao,  Mongolian,  Myanmar,  New_Tai_Lue,  Nko,
+       Ogham,   Old_Italic,   Old_Persian,   Old_South_Arabian,    Old_Turkic,
+       Ol_Chiki,  Oriya, Osmanya, Phags_Pa, Phoenician, Rejang, Runic, Samari-
+       tan, Saurashtra, Sharada, Shavian,  Sinhala,  Sora_Sompeng,  Sundanese,
+       Syloti_Nagri,  Syriac,  Tagalog,  Tagbanwa, Tai_Le, Tai_Tham, Tai_Viet,
+       Takri, Tamil, Telugu, Thaana, Thai, Tibetan, Tifinagh,  Ugaritic,  Vai,
        Yi.



@@ -7600,8 +7772,8 @@
          word        same as \w
          xdigit      hexadecimal digit


-       In PCRE, POSIX character set names recognize only ASCII  characters  by
-       default,  but  some  of them use Unicode properties if PCRE_UCP is set.
+       In  PCRE,  POSIX character set names recognize only ASCII characters by
+       default, but some of them use Unicode properties if  PCRE_UCP  is  set.
        You can use \Q...\E inside a character class.



@@ -7682,7 +7854,7 @@
          (?x)            extended (ignore white space)
          (?-...)         unset option(s)


-       The following are recognized only at the start of a  pattern  or  after
+       The  following  are  recognized only at the start of a pattern or after
        one of the newline-setting options with similar syntax:


          (*LIMIT_MATCH=d) set the match limit to d (decimal number)
@@ -7694,7 +7866,10 @@
          (*UTF)          set appropriate UTF mode for the library in use
          (*UCP)          set PCRE_UCP (use Unicode properties for \d etc)


+       Note that LIMIT_MATCH and LIMIT_RECURSION can only reduce the value  of
+       the limits set by the caller of pcre_exec(), not increase them.


+
LOOKAHEAD AND LOOKBEHIND ASSERTIONS

          (?=...)         positive look ahead
@@ -7818,11 +7993,11 @@


REVISION

-       Last updated: 26 April 2013
+       Last updated: 12 November 2013
        Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCREUNICODE(3)             Library Functions Manual             PCREUNICODE(3)



@@ -8040,8 +8215,8 @@
        Last updated: 27 February 2013
        Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCREJIT(3)                 Library Functions Manual                 PCREJIT(3)



@@ -8453,8 +8628,8 @@
        Last updated: 17 March 2013
        Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCREPARTIAL(3)             Library Functions Manual             PCREPARTIAL(3)



@@ -8742,6 +8917,16 @@
        matched  string. It is up to the calling program to do that if it needs
        to.


+       That means that, for an unanchored pattern, if a continued match fails,
+       it  is  not  possible  to  try  again at a new starting point. All this
+       facility is capable of doing is  continuing  with  the  previous  match
+       attempt.  In  the previous example, if the second set of data is "ug23"
+       the result is no match, even though there would be a match for  "aug23"
+       if  the entire string were given at once. Depending on the application,
+       this may or may not be what you want.  The only way to allow for start-
+       ing  again  at  the next character is to retain the matched part of the
+       subject and try a new complete match.
+
        You can set the PCRE_PARTIAL_SOFT  or  PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD  options  with
        PCRE_DFA_RESTART  to  continue partial matching over multiple segments.
        This facility can be used to pass very long subject strings to the  DFA
@@ -8925,11 +9110,11 @@


REVISION

-       Last updated: 20 February 2013
+       Last updated: 02 July 2013
        Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCREPRECOMPILE(3)          Library Functions Manual          PCREPRECOMPILE(3)



@@ -9029,6 +9214,10 @@
        is  used  to  pass this data, as described in the section on matching a
        pattern in the pcreapi documentation.


+       Warning: The tables that pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec()  use  must  be
+       the same as those that were used when the pattern was compiled. If this
+       is not the case, the behaviour is undefined.
+
        If you did not provide custom character tables  when  the  pattern  was
        compiled, the pointer in the compiled pattern is NULL, which causes the
        matching functions to use PCRE's internal tables. Thus, you do not need
@@ -9060,11 +9249,11 @@


REVISION

-       Last updated: 24 June 2012
-       Copyright (c) 1997-2012 University of Cambridge.
+       Last updated: 12 November 2013
+       Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCREPERFORM(3)             Library Functions Manual             PCREPERFORM(3)



@@ -9233,8 +9422,8 @@
        Last updated: 25 August 2012
        Copyright (c) 1997-2012 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCREPOSIX(3)               Library Functions Manual               PCREPOSIX(3)



@@ -9497,8 +9686,8 @@
        Last updated: 09 January 2012
        Copyright (c) 1997-2012 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCRECPP(3)                 Library Functions Manual                 PCRECPP(3)



@@ -9840,8 +10029,8 @@

        Last updated: 08 January 2012
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCRESAMPLE(3)              Library Functions Manual              PCRESAMPLE(3)



@@ -9941,38 +10130,43 @@
        never in practice be relevant.


        The maximum length of a compiled  pattern  is  approximately  64K  data
-       units  (bytes  for  the  8-bit  library,  32-bit  units  for the 32-bit
+       units  (bytes  for  the  8-bit  library,  16-bit  units  for the 16-bit
        library, and 32-bit units for the 32-bit library) if PCRE  is  compiled
-       with  the  default  internal  linkage  size  of 2 bytes. If you want to
-       process regular expressions that are truly enormous,  you  can  compile
-       PCRE  with an internal linkage size of 3 or 4 (when building the 16-bit
-       or 32-bit library, 3 is rounded up to 4). See the README  file  in  the
-       source  distribution  and  the  pcrebuild documentation for details. In
-       these cases the limit is substantially larger.  However, the  speed  of
+       with  the default internal linkage size, which is 2 bytes for the 8-bit
+       and 16-bit libraries, and 4 bytes for the 32-bit library. If  you  want
+       to process regular expressions that are truly enormous, you can compile
+       PCRE with an internal linkage size of 3 or 4 (when building the  16-bit
+       or  32-bit  library,  3 is rounded up to 4). See the README file in the
+       source distribution and the pcrebuild  documentation  for  details.  In
+       these  cases  the limit is substantially larger.  However, the speed of
        execution is slower.


        All values in repeating quantifiers must be less than 65536.


        There is no limit to the number of parenthesized subpatterns, but there
-       can be no more than 65535 capturing subpatterns.
+       can  be  no more than 65535 capturing subpatterns. There is, however, a
+       limit to the depth of  nesting  of  parenthesized  subpatterns  of  all
+       kinds.  This  is  imposed  in order to limit the amount of system stack
+       used at compile time. The limit can be specified when  PCRE  is  built;
+       the default is 250.


        There is a limit to the number of forward references to subsequent sub-
-       patterns  of  around  200,000.  Repeated  forward references with fixed
-       upper limits, for example, (?2){0,100} when subpattern number 2  is  to
-       the  right,  are included in the count. There is no limit to the number
+       patterns of around 200,000.  Repeated  forward  references  with  fixed
+       upper  limits,  for example, (?2){0,100} when subpattern number 2 is to
+       the right, are included in the count. There is no limit to  the  number
        of backward references.


        The maximum length of name for a named subpattern is 32 characters, and
        the maximum number of named subpatterns is 10000.


-       The  maximum  length  of  a  name  in  a (*MARK), (*PRUNE), (*SKIP), or
-       (*THEN) verb is 255 for the 8-bit library and 65535 for the 16-bit  and
-       32-bit library.
+       The maximum length of a  name  in  a  (*MARK),  (*PRUNE),  (*SKIP),  or
+       (*THEN)  verb is 255 for the 8-bit library and 65535 for the 16-bit and
+       32-bit libraries.


-       The  maximum  length of a subject string is the largest positive number
-       that an integer variable can hold. However, when using the  traditional
+       The maximum length of a subject string is the largest  positive  number
+       that  an integer variable can hold. However, when using the traditional
        matching function, PCRE uses recursion to handle subpatterns and indef-
-       inite repetition.  This means that the available stack space may  limit
+       inite  repetition.  This means that the available stack space may limit
        the size of a subject string that can be processed by certain patterns.
        For a discussion of stack issues, see the pcrestack documentation.


@@ -9986,11 +10180,11 @@

REVISION

-       Last updated: 04 May 2012
-       Copyright (c) 1997-2012 University of Cambridge.
+       Last updated: 05 November 2013
+       Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+
 PCRESTACK(3)               Library Functions Manual               PCRESTACK(3)



@@ -10175,5 +10369,5 @@
        Last updated: 24 June 2012
        Copyright (c) 1997-2012 University of Cambridge.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
+
+


Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcre_compile.3
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/pcre_compile.3    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcre_compile.3    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
   PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE    Disable numbered capturing paren-
                             theses (named ones available)
   PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS    Disable auto-possessification
-  PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE  Disable match-time start optimizations 
+  PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE  Disable match-time start optimizations
   PCRE_NO_UTF16_CHECK     Do not check the pattern for UTF-16
                             validity (only relevant if
                             PCRE_UTF16 is set)


Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcre_compile2.3
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/pcre_compile2.3    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcre_compile2.3    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
   PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE    Disable numbered capturing paren-
                             theses (named ones available)
   PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS    Disable auto-possessification
-  PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE  Disable match-time start optimizations 
+  PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE  Disable match-time start optimizations
   PCRE_NO_UTF16_CHECK     Do not check the pattern for UTF-16
                             validity (only relevant if
                             PCRE_UTF16 is set)


Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcre_config.3
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/pcre_config.3    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcre_config.3    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
                               target architecture for the JIT compiler,
                               or NULL if there is no JIT support
   PCRE_CONFIG_LINK_SIZE     Internal link size: 2, 3, or 4
-  PCRE_CONFIG_PARENS_LIMIT  Parentheses nesting limit 
+  PCRE_CONFIG_PARENS_LIMIT  Parentheses nesting limit
   PCRE_CONFIG_MATCH_LIMIT   Internal resource limit
   PCRE_CONFIG_MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION
                             Internal recursion depth limit


Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcreapi.3
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/pcreapi.3    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcreapi.3    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -462,8 +462,8 @@
 .sp
   PCRE_CONFIG_PARENS_LIMIT
 .sp
-The output is a long integer that gives the maximum depth of nesting of 
-parentheses (of any kind) in a pattern. This limit is imposed to cap the amount 
+The output is a long integer that gives the maximum depth of nesting of
+parentheses (of any kind) in a pattern. This limit is imposed to cap the amount
 of system stack used when a pattern is compiled. It is specified when PCRE is
 built; the default is 250.
 .sp
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@
 is not allowed within sequences such as (?> that introduce various
 parenthesized subpatterns, nor within a numerical quantifier such as {1,3}.
 However, ignorable white space is permitted between an item and a following
-quantifier and between a quantifier and a following + that indicates 
+quantifier and between a quantifier and a following + that indicates
 possessiveness.
 .P
 White space did not used to include the VT character (code 11), because Perl
@@ -815,11 +815,11 @@
 .sp
   PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS
 .sp
-If this option is set, it disables "auto-possessification". This is an 
+If this option is set, it disables "auto-possessification". This is an
 optimization that, for example, turns a+b into a++b in order to avoid
 backtracks into a+ that can never be successful. However, if callouts are in
 use, auto-possessification means that some of them are never taken. You can set
-this option if you want the matching functions to do a full unoptimized search 
+this option if you want the matching functions to do a full unoptimized search
 and run all the callouts, but it is mainly provided for testing purposes.
 .sp
   PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE
@@ -988,7 +988,7 @@
   78  setting UTF is disabled by the application
   79  non-hex character in \ex{} (closing brace missing?)
   80  non-octal character in \eo{} (closing brace missing?)
-  81  missing opening brace after \eo 
+  81  missing opening brace after \eo
   82  parentheses are too deeply nested
   83  invalid range in character class
 .sp
@@ -1331,8 +1331,8 @@
 .sp
   PCRE_INFO_MATCH_EMPTY
 .sp
-Return 1 if the pattern can match an empty string, otherwise 0. The fourth 
-argument should point to an \fBint\fP variable.   
+Return 1 if the pattern can match an empty string, otherwise 0. The fourth
+argument should point to an \fBint\fP variable.
 .sp
   PCRE_INFO_MATCHLIMIT
 .sp
@@ -2816,7 +2816,7 @@
 \fIovector\fP, the yield of the function is zero, and the vector is filled with
 the longest matches. Unlike \fBpcre_exec()\fP, \fBpcre_dfa_exec()\fP can use
 the entire \fIovector\fP for returning matched strings.
-
+.P
 NOTE: PCRE's "auto-possessification" optimization usually applies to character
 repeats at the end of a pattern (as well as internally). For example, the
 pattern "a\ed+" is compiled as if it were "a\ed++" because there is no point


Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcrecompat.3
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/pcrecompat.3    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcrecompat.3    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -122,12 +122,12 @@
 .P
 15. Perl recognizes comments in some places that PCRE does not, for example,
 between the ( and ? at the start of a subpattern. If the /x modifier is set,
-Perl allows white space between ( and ? (though current Perls warn that this is 
+Perl allows white space between ( and ? (though current Perls warn that this is
 deprecated) but PCRE never does, even if the PCRE_EXTENDED option is set.
 .P
 16. Perl, when in warning mode, gives warnings for character classes such as
-[A-\ed] or [a-[:digit:]]. It then treats the hyphens as literals. PCRE has no 
-warning features, so it gives an error in these cases because they are almost 
+[A-\ed] or [a-[:digit:]]. It then treats the hyphens as literals. PCRE has no
+warning features, so it gives an error in these cases because they are almost
 certainly user mistakes.
 .P
 17. In PCRE, the upper/lower case character properties Lu and Ll are not


Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcrepartial.3
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/pcrepartial.3    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcrepartial.3    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -282,9 +282,9 @@
 .P
 That means that, for an unanchored pattern, if a continued match fails, it is
 not possible to try again at a new starting point. All this facility is capable
-of doing is continuing with the previous match attempt. In the previous 
-example, if the second set of data is "ug23" the result is no match, even 
-though there would be a match for "aug23" if the entire string were given at 
+of doing is continuing with the previous match attempt. In the previous
+example, if the second set of data is "ug23" the result is no match, even
+though there would be a match for "aug23" if the entire string were given at
 once. Depending on the application, this may or may not be what you want.
 The only way to allow for starting again at the next character is to retain the
 matched part of the subject and try a new complete match.


Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcrepattern.3
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/pcrepattern.3    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcrepattern.3    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
 .SS "Disabling auto-possessification"
 .rs
 .sp
-If a pattern starts with (*NO_AUTO_POSSESS), it has the same effect as setting 
+If a pattern starts with (*NO_AUTO_POSSESS), it has the same effect as setting
 the PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS option at compile time. This stops PCRE from making
 quantifiers possessive when what follows cannot match the repeated item. For
 example, by default a+b is treated as a++b. For more details, see the
@@ -317,9 +317,9 @@
   \en        linefeed (hex 0A)
   \er        carriage return (hex 0D)
   \et        tab (hex 09)
-  \e0dd      character with octal code 0dd 
+  \e0dd      character with octal code 0dd
   \eddd      character with octal code ddd, or back reference
-  \eo{ddd..} character with octal code ddd.. 
+  \eo{ddd..} character with octal code ddd..
   \exhh      character with hex code hh
   \ex{hhh..} character with hex code hhh.. (non-JavaScript mode)
   \euhhhh    character with hex code hhhh (JavaScript mode only)
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@
 sure you supply two digits after the initial zero if the pattern character that
 follows is itself an octal digit.
 .P
-The escape \eo must be followed by a sequence of octal digits, enclosed in 
+The escape \eo must be followed by a sequence of octal digits, enclosed in
 braces. An error occurs if this is not the case. This escape is a recent
 addition to Perl; it provides way of specifying character code points as octal
 numbers greater than 0777, and it also allows octal numbers and back references
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@
   32-bit UTF-32 mode    less than 0x10ffff and a valid codepoint
 .sp
 Invalid Unicode codepoints are the range 0xd800 to 0xdfff (the so-called
-"surrogate" codepoints), and 0xffef. 
+"surrogate" codepoints), and 0xffef.
 .
 .
 .SS "Escape sequences in character classes"
@@ -535,8 +535,8 @@
 11), which made it different from the the POSIX "space" class. However, Perl
 added VT at release 5.18, and PCRE followed suit at release 8.34. The default
 \es characters are now HT (9), LF (10), VT (11), FF (12), CR (13), and space
-(32), which are defined as white space in the "C" locale. This list may vary if 
-locale-specific matching is taking place; in particular, in some locales the 
+(32), which are defined as white space in the "C" locale. This list may vary if
+locale-specific matching is taking place; in particular, in some locales the
 "non-breaking space" character (\exA0) is recognized as white space.
 .P
 A "word" character is an underscore or any character that is a letter or digit.
@@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@
 character class. For example, [d-m] matches any letter between d and m,
 inclusive. If a minus character is required in a class, it must be escaped with
 a backslash or appear in a position where it cannot be interpreted as
-indicating a range, typically as the first or last character in the class, or 
+indicating a range, typically as the first or last character in the class, or
 immediately after a range. For example, [b-d-z] matches letters in the range b
 to d, a hyphen character, or z.
 .P
@@ -1376,21 +1376,21 @@
   [:upper:]  becomes  \ep{Lu}
   [:word:]   becomes  \ep{Xwd}
 .sp
-Negated versions, such as [:^alpha:] use \eP instead of \ep. Three other POSIX 
+Negated versions, such as [:^alpha:] use \eP instead of \ep. Three other POSIX
 classes are handled specially in UCP mode:
 .TP 10
 [:graph:]
-This matches characters that have glyphs that mark the page when printed. In 
-Unicode property terms, it matches all characters with the L, M, N, P, S, or Cf 
+This matches characters that have glyphs that mark the page when printed. In
+Unicode property terms, it matches all characters with the L, M, N, P, S, or Cf
 properties, except for:
 .sp
   U+061C           Arabic Letter Mark
-  U+180E           Mongolian Vowel Separator 
+  U+180E           Mongolian Vowel Separator
   U+2066 - U+2069  Various "isolate"s
 .sp
 .TP 10
 [:print:]
-This matches the same characters as [:graph:] plus space characters that are 
+This matches the same characters as [:graph:] plus space characters that are
 not controls, that is, characters with the Zs property.
 .TP 10
 [:punct:]
@@ -1619,7 +1619,7 @@
 .\"
 can be made by name as well as by number.
 .P
-Names consist of up to 32 alphanumeric characters and underscores, but must 
+Names consist of up to 32 alphanumeric characters and underscores, but must
 start with a non-digit. Named capturing parentheses are still allocated numbers
 as well as names, exactly as if the names were not present. The PCRE API
 provides function calls for extracting the name-to-number translation table
@@ -1650,12 +1650,12 @@
 matched. This saves searching to find which numbered subpattern it was.
 .P
 If you make a back reference to a non-unique named subpattern from elsewhere in
-the pattern, the subpatterns to which the name refers are checked in the order 
-in which they appear in the overall pattern. The first one that is set is used 
-for the reference. For example, this pattern matches both "foofoo" and 
+the pattern, the subpatterns to which the name refers are checked in the order
+in which they appear in the overall pattern. The first one that is set is used
+for the reference. For example, this pattern matches both "foofoo" and
 "barbar" but not "foobar" or "barfoo":
 .sp
-  (?:(?<n>foo)|(?<n>bar))\k<n>
+  (?:(?<n>foo)|(?<n>bar))\ek<n>
 .sp
 .P
 If you make a subroutine call to a non-unique named subpattern, the one that
@@ -2356,7 +2356,7 @@
 .sp
 Perl uses the syntax (?(<name>)...) or (?('name')...) to test for a used
 subpattern by name. For compatibility with earlier versions of PCRE, which had
-this facility before Perl, the syntax (?(name)...) is also recognized. 
+this facility before Perl, the syntax (?(name)...) is also recognized.
 .P
 Rewriting the above example to use a named subpattern gives this:
 .sp


Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcresyntax.3
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/pcresyntax.3    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcresyntax.3    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@
   \en         newline (hex 0A)
   \er         carriage return (hex 0D)
   \et         tab (hex 09)
-  \e0dd       character with octal code 0dd 
+  \e0dd       character with octal code 0dd
   \eddd       character with octal code ddd, or backreference
-  \eo{ddd..}  character with octal code ddd.. 
+  \eo{ddd..}  character with octal code ddd..
   \exhh       character with hex code hh
   \ex{hhh..}  character with hex code hhh..
 .sp
-Note that \e0dd is always an octal code, and that \e8 and \e9 are the literal 
-characters "8" and "9".   
+Note that \e0dd is always an octal code, and that \e8 and \e9 are the literal
+characters "8" and "9".
 .
 .
 .SH "CHARACTER TYPES"
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
   Xuc        Univerally-named character: one that can be
                represented by a Universal Character Name
   Xwd        Perl word: property Xan or underscore
-.sp  
+.sp
 Perl and POSIX space are now the same. Perl added VT to its space character set
 at release 5.18 and PCRE changed at release 8.34.
 .


Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcretest.1
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/pcretest.1    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcretest.1    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -156,8 +156,8 @@
 bytes for both libraries.
 .TP 10
 \fB-O\fP
-Behave as if each pattern has the \fB/O\fP modifier, that is disable 
-auto-possessification for all patterns. 
+Behave as if each pattern has the \fB/O\fP modifier, that is disable
+auto-possessification for all patterns.
 .TP 10
 \fB-o\fP \fIosize\fP
 Set the number of elements in the output vector that is used when calling
@@ -232,8 +232,8 @@
 This is like \fB-t\fP except that it times only the matching phase, not the
 compile or study phases.
 .TP 10
-\fB-T\fp \fB-TM\fP
-These behave like \fB-t\fP and \fB-tm\fP, but in addition, at the end of a run, 
+\fB-T\fP \fB-TM\fP
+These behave like \fB-t\fP and \fB-tm\fP, but in addition, at the end of a run,
 the total times for all compiles, studies, and matches are output.
 .
 .
@@ -612,17 +612,17 @@
 .sp
   < forbid 8W
 .sp
-This locks out the /8 and /W modifiers. An immediate error is given if they are 
-subsequently encountered. If the character string contains < but not >, all the 
-multi-character modifiers that begin with < are locked out. Otherwise, such 
+This locks out the /8 and /W modifiers. An immediate error is given if they are
+subsequently encountered. If the character string contains < but not >, all the
+multi-character modifiers that begin with < are locked out. Otherwise, such
 modifiers must be explicitly listed, for example:
 .sp
   < forbid <JS><cr>
 .sp
-There must be a single space between < and "forbid" for this feature to be 
+There must be a single space between < and "forbid" for this feature to be
 recognised. If there is not, the line is interpreted either as a request to
 re-load a pre-compiled pattern (see "SAVING AND RELOADING COMPILED PATTERNS"
-below) or, if there is a another < character, as a pattern that uses < as its 
+below) or, if there is a another < character, as a pattern that uses < as its
 delimiter.
 .
 .
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@
   \ev         vertical tab (\ex0b)
   \ennn       octal character (up to 3 octal digits); always
                a byte unless > 255 in UTF-8 or 16-bit or 32-bit mode
-  \eo{dd...}  octal character (any number of octal digits}              
+  \eo{dd...}  octal character (any number of octal digits}
   \exhh       hexadecimal byte (up to 2 hex digits)
   \ex{hh...}  hexadecimal character (any number of hex digits)
 .\" JOIN


Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcretest.txt
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/pcretest.txt    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcretest.txt    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -138,32 +138,35 @@
                  compiled.  This  is  equivalent  to adding /M to each regular
                  expression. The size is given in bytes for both libraries.


-       -o osize  Set the number of elements in the output vector that is  used
-                 when  calling pcre[16|32]_exec() or pcre[16|32]_dfa_exec() to
-                 be osize. The default value is 45, which  is  enough  for  14
+       -O        Behave as if each pattern has the /O modifier, that  is  dis-
+                 able auto-possessification for all patterns.
+
+       -o osize  Set  the number of elements in the output vector that is used
+                 when calling pcre[16|32]_exec() or pcre[16|32]_dfa_exec()  to
+                 be  osize.  The  default  value is 45, which is enough for 14
                  capturing subexpressions for pcre[16|32]_exec() or 22 differ-
-                 ent matches for pcre[16|32]_dfa_exec().  The vector size  can
-                 be  changed  for individual matching calls by including \O in
+                 ent  matches for pcre[16|32]_dfa_exec().  The vector size can
+                 be changed for individual matching calls by including  \O  in
                  the data line (see below).


-       -p        Behave as if each pattern has  the  /P  modifier;  the  POSIX
-                 wrapper  API  is used to call PCRE. None of the other options
-                 has any effect when -p is set. This option can be  used  only
+       -p        Behave  as  if  each  pattern  has the /P modifier; the POSIX
+                 wrapper API is used to call PCRE. None of the  other  options
+                 has  any  effect when -p is set. This option can be used only
                  with the 8-bit library.


-       -q        Do  not output the version number of pcretest at the start of
+       -q        Do not output the version number of pcretest at the start  of
                  execution.


-       -S size   On Unix-like systems, set the size of the run-time  stack  to
+       -S size   On  Unix-like  systems, set the size of the run-time stack to
                  size megabytes.


-       -s or -s+ Behave  as  if  each  pattern  has  the /S modifier; in other
-                 words, force each pattern to be studied. If -s+ is used,  all
-                 the  JIT  compile  options are passed to pcre[16|32]_study(),
-                 causing just-in-time optimization to  be  set  up  if  it  is
-                 available,  for  both full and partial matching. Specific JIT
+       -s or -s+ Behave as if each pattern  has  the  /S  modifier;  in  other
+                 words,  force each pattern to be studied. If -s+ is used, all
+                 the JIT compile options are  passed  to  pcre[16|32]_study(),
+                 causing  just-in-time  optimization  to  be  set  up if it is
+                 available, for both full and partial matching.  Specific  JIT
                  compile options can be selected by following -s+ with a digit
-                 in  the  range 1 to 7, which selects the JIT compile modes as
+                 in the range 1 to 7, which selects the JIT compile  modes  as
                  follows:


                    1  normal match only
@@ -173,115 +176,119 @@
                    6  soft and hard partial match
                    7  all three modes (default)


-                 If -s++ is used instead of -s+ (with or without  a  following
-                 digit),  the  text  "(JIT)" is added to the first output line
+                 If  -s++  is used instead of -s+ (with or without a following
+                 digit), the text "(JIT)" is added to the  first  output  line
                  after a match or no match when JIT-compiled code was actually
                  used.


-                 Note  that  there  are  pattern options that can override -s,
+                 Note that there are pattern options  that  can  override  -s,
                  either specifying no studying at all, or suppressing JIT com-
                  pilation.


-                 If  the  /I  or /D option is present on a pattern (requesting
-                 output about the compiled  pattern),  information  about  the
-                 result  of  studying  is not included when studying is caused
-                 only by -s and neither -i nor -d is present  on  the  command
-                 line.  This  behaviour  means that the output from tests that
-                 are run with and without -s should be identical, except  when
+                 If the /I or /D option is present on  a  pattern  (requesting
+                 output  about  the  compiled  pattern), information about the
+                 result of studying is not included when  studying  is  caused
+                 only  by  -s  and neither -i nor -d is present on the command
+                 line. This behaviour means that the output  from  tests  that
+                 are  run with and without -s should be identical, except when
                  options that output information about the actual running of a
                  match are set.


-                 The -M, -t, and -tm options,  which  give  information  about
-                 resources  used,  are likely to produce different output with
-                 and without -s. Output may also differ if the  /C  option  is
+                 The  -M,  -t,  and  -tm options, which give information about
+                 resources used, are likely to produce different  output  with
+                 and  without  -s.  Output may also differ if the /C option is
                  present on an individual pattern. This uses callouts to trace
-                 the the matching process, and this may be  different  between
-                 studied  and  non-studied  patterns.  If the pattern contains
-                 (*MARK) items there may also be  differences,  for  the  same
+                 the  the  matching process, and this may be different between
+                 studied and non-studied patterns.  If  the  pattern  contains
+                 (*MARK)  items  there  may  also be differences, for the same
                  reason. The -s command line option can be overridden for spe-
-                 cific patterns that should never be studied (see the /S  pat-
+                 cific  patterns that should never be studied (see the /S pat-
                  tern modifier below).


-       -t        Run  each  compile, study, and match many times with a timer,
-                 and output resulting time per compile or match (in  millisec-
-                 onds).  Do  not set -m with -t, because you will then get the
-                 size output a zillion times, and  the  timing  will  be  dis-
-                 torted.  You  can  control  the number of iterations that are
-                 used for timing by following -t with a number (as a  separate
-                 item on the command line). For example, "-t 1000" would iter-
-                 ate 1000 times. The default is to iterate 500000 times.
+       -t        Run each compile, study, and match many times with  a  timer,
+                 and  output  the resulting times per compile, study, or match
+                 (in milliseconds). Do not set -m with -t,  because  you  will
+                 then get the size output a zillion times, and the timing will
+                 be distorted. You can control the number of  iterations  that
+                 are used for timing by following -t with a number (as a sepa-
+                 rate item on the command line). For example, "-t 1000"  iter-
+                 ates 1000 times.  The default is to iterate 500000 times.


        -tm       This is like -t except that it times only the matching phase,
                  not the compile or study phases.


+       -T -TM    These behave like -t and -tm, but in addition, at the end  of
+                 a run, the total times for all compiles, studies, and matches
+                 are output.


+
DESCRIPTION

-       If  pcretest  is  given two filename arguments, it reads from the first
+       If pcretest is given two filename arguments, it reads  from  the  first
        and writes to the second. If it is given only one filename argument, it
-       reads  from  that  file  and writes to stdout. Otherwise, it reads from
-       stdin and writes to stdout, and prompts for each line of  input,  using
+       reads from that file and writes to stdout.  Otherwise,  it  reads  from
+       stdin  and  writes to stdout, and prompts for each line of input, using
        "re>" to prompt for regular expressions, and "data>" to prompt for data
        lines.


-       When pcretest is built, a configuration  option  can  specify  that  it
-       should  be  linked  with the libreadline library. When this is done, if
+       When  pcretest  is  built,  a  configuration option can specify that it
+       should be linked with the libreadline library. When this  is  done,  if
        the input is from a terminal, it is read using the readline() function.
-       This  provides line-editing and history facilities. The output from the
+       This provides line-editing and history facilities. The output from  the
        -help option states whether or not readline() will be used.


        The program handles any number of sets of input on a single input file.
-       Each  set starts with a regular expression, and continues with any num-
-       ber of data lines to be matched against the pattern.
+       Each set starts with a regular expression, and continues with any  num-
+       ber of data lines to be matched against that pattern.


-       Each data line is matched separately and independently. If you want  to
+       Each  data line is matched separately and independently. If you want to
        do multi-line matches, you have to use the \n escape sequence (or \r or
        \r\n, etc., depending on the newline setting) in a single line of input
-       to  encode  the  newline  sequences. There is no limit on the length of
-       data lines; the input buffer is automatically extended  if  it  is  too
+       to encode the newline sequences. There is no limit  on  the  length  of
+       data  lines;  the  input  buffer is automatically extended if it is too
        small.


-       An  empty  line signals the end of the data lines, at which point a new
-       regular expression is read. The regular expressions are given  enclosed
+       An empty line signals the end of the data lines, at which point  a  new
+       regular  expression is read. The regular expressions are given enclosed
        in any non-alphanumeric delimiters other than backslash, for example:


          /(a|bc)x+yz/


-       White  space before the initial delimiter is ignored. A regular expres-
-       sion may be continued over several input lines, in which case the  new-
-       line  characters  are included within it. It is possible to include the
+       White space before the initial delimiter is ignored. A regular  expres-
+       sion  may be continued over several input lines, in which case the new-
+       line characters are included within it. It is possible to  include  the
        delimiter within the pattern by escaping it, for example


          /abc\/def/


-       If you do so, the escape and the delimiter form part  of  the  pattern,
-       but  since delimiters are always non-alphanumeric, this does not affect
-       its interpretation.  If the terminating delimiter is  immediately  fol-
+       If  you  do  so, the escape and the delimiter form part of the pattern,
+       but since delimiters are always non-alphanumeric, this does not  affect
+       its  interpretation.   If the terminating delimiter is immediately fol-
        lowed by a backslash, for example,


          /abc/\


-       then  a  backslash  is added to the end of the pattern. This is done to
-       provide a way of testing the error condition that arises if  a  pattern
+       then a backslash is added to the end of the pattern. This  is  done  to
+       provide  a  way of testing the error condition that arises if a pattern
        finishes with a backslash, because


          /abc\/


-       is  interpreted as the first line of a pattern that starts with "abc/",
+       is interpreted as the first line of a pattern that starts with  "abc/",
        causing pcretest to read the next line as a continuation of the regular
        expression.



PATTERN MODIFIERS

-       A  pattern may be followed by any number of modifiers, which are mostly
-       single characters, though some of these can  be  qualified  by  further
-       characters.   Following Perl usage, these are referred to below as, for
-       example, "the /i modifier", even though the delimiter  of  the  pattern
-       need  not  always  be  a slash, and no slash is used when writing modi-
-       fiers. White space may appear between the final pattern  delimiter  and
-       the  first  modifier,  and between the modifiers themselves. For refer-
-       ence, here is a complete list of  modifiers.  They  fall  into  several
+       A pattern may be followed by any number of modifiers, which are  mostly
+       single  characters,  though  some  of these can be qualified by further
+       characters.  Following Perl usage, these are referred to below as,  for
+       example,  "the  /i  modifier", even though the delimiter of the pattern
+       need not always be a slash, and no slash is  used  when  writing  modi-
+       fiers.  White  space may appear between the final pattern delimiter and
+       the first modifier, and between the modifiers  themselves.  For  refer-
+       ence,  here  is  a  complete  list of modifiers. They fall into several
        groups that are described in detail in the following sections.


          /8              set UTF mode
@@ -307,6 +314,7 @@
          /M              show compiled memory size
          /m              set PCRE_MULTILINE
          /N              set PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE
+         /O              set PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS
          /P              use the POSIX wrapper
          /S              study the pattern after compilation
          /s              set PCRE_DOTALL
@@ -331,8 +339,8 @@
    Perl-compatible modifiers


        The /i, /m, /s, and /x modifiers set the PCRE_CASELESS, PCRE_MULTILINE,
-       PCRE_DOTALL,   or    PCRE_EXTENDED    options,    respectively,    when
-       pcre[16|32]_compile()  is  called. These four modifier letters have the
+       PCRE_DOTALL,    or    PCRE_EXTENDED    options,    respectively,   when
+       pcre[16|32]_compile() is called. These four modifier letters  have  the
        same effect as they do in Perl. For example:


          /caseless/i
@@ -340,7 +348,7 @@


    Modifiers for other PCRE options


-       The following table shows additional modifiers for  setting  PCRE  com-
+       The  following  table  shows additional modifiers for setting PCRE com-
        pile-time options that do not correspond to anything in Perl:


          /8              PCRE_UTF8           ) when using the 8-bit
@@ -359,6 +367,7 @@
          /f              PCRE_FIRSTLINE
          /J              PCRE_DUPNAMES
          /N              PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE
+         /O              PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS
          /U              PCRE_UNGREEDY
          /W              PCRE_UCP
          /X              PCRE_EXTRA
@@ -372,138 +381,138 @@
          /<bsr_unicode>  PCRE_BSR_UNICODE
          /<JS>           PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT


-       The  modifiers  that are enclosed in angle brackets are literal strings
-       as shown, including the angle brackets, but the letters within  can  be
-       in  either case.  This example sets multiline matching with CRLF as the
+       The modifiers that are enclosed in angle brackets are  literal  strings
+       as  shown,  including the angle brackets, but the letters within can be
+       in either case.  This example sets multiline matching with CRLF as  the
        line ending sequence:


          /^abc/m<CRLF>


-       As well as turning on  the  PCRE_UTF8/16/32  option,  the  /8  modifier
-       causes  all  non-printing  characters  in  output strings to be printed
+       As  well  as  turning  on  the  PCRE_UTF8/16/32 option, the /8 modifier
+       causes all non-printing characters in  output  strings  to  be  printed
        using the \x{hh...} notation. Otherwise, those less than 0x100 are out-
        put in hex without the curly brackets.


-       Full  details  of  the PCRE options are given in the pcreapi documenta-
+       Full details of the PCRE options are given in  the  pcreapi  documenta-
        tion.


    Finding all matches in a string


-       Searching for all possible matches within each subject  string  can  be
-       requested  by  the  /g  or  /G modifier. After finding a match, PCRE is
+       Searching  for  all  possible matches within each subject string can be
+       requested by the /g or /G modifier. After  finding  a  match,  PCRE  is
        called again to search the remainder of the subject string. The differ-
        ence between /g and /G is that the former uses the startoffset argument
-       to pcre[16|32]_exec() to start searching at  a  new  point  within  the
-       entire  string  (which is in effect what Perl does), whereas the latter
-       passes over a shortened substring.  This  makes  a  difference  to  the
-       matching  process  if  the  pattern  begins with a lookbehind assertion
+       to  pcre[16|32]_exec()  to  start  searching  at a new point within the
+       entire string (which is in effect what Perl does), whereas  the  latter
+       passes  over  a  shortened  substring.  This  makes a difference to the
+       matching process if the pattern  begins  with  a  lookbehind  assertion
        (including \b or \B).


-       If any call to pcre[16|32]_exec() in a /g or  /G  sequence  matches  an
-       empty  string, the next call is done with the PCRE_NOTEMPTY_ATSTART and
-       PCRE_ANCHORED flags set in order  to  search  for  another,  non-empty,
-       match  at  the same point. If this second match fails, the start offset
-       is advanced, and the normal match is retried.  This  imitates  the  way
+       If  any  call  to  pcre[16|32]_exec() in a /g or /G sequence matches an
+       empty string, the next call is done with the PCRE_NOTEMPTY_ATSTART  and
+       PCRE_ANCHORED  flags  set  in  order  to search for another, non-empty,
+       match at the same point. If this second match fails, the  start  offset
+       is  advanced,  and  the  normal match is retried. This imitates the way
        Perl handles such cases when using the /g modifier or the split() func-
-       tion. Normally, the start offset is advanced by one character,  but  if
-       the  newline  convention  recognizes CRLF as a newline, and the current
+       tion.  Normally,  the start offset is advanced by one character, but if
+       the newline convention recognizes CRLF as a newline,  and  the  current
        character is CR followed by LF, an advance of two is used.


    Other modifiers


        There are yet more modifiers for controlling the way pcretest operates.


-       The /+ modifier requests that as well as outputting the substring  that
-       matched  the  entire  pattern,  pcretest  should in addition output the
-       remainder of the subject string. This is useful  for  tests  where  the
-       subject  contains multiple copies of the same substring. If the + modi-
-       fier appears twice, the same action is taken for  captured  substrings.
-       In  each case the remainder is output on the following line with a plus
-       character following the capture number. Note that  this  modifier  must
-       not  immediately follow the /S modifier because /S+ and /S++ have other
+       The  /+ modifier requests that as well as outputting the substring that
+       matched the entire pattern, pcretest  should  in  addition  output  the
+       remainder  of  the  subject  string. This is useful for tests where the
+       subject contains multiple copies of the same substring. If the +  modi-
+       fier  appears  twice, the same action is taken for captured substrings.
+       In each case the remainder is output on the following line with a  plus
+       character  following  the  capture number. Note that this modifier must
+       not immediately follow the /S modifier because /S+ and /S++ have  other
        meanings.


-       The /= modifier requests that the  values  of  all  potential  captured
-       parentheses  be  output after a match. By default, only those up to the
+       The  /=  modifier  requests  that  the values of all potential captured
+       parentheses be output after a match. By default, only those up  to  the
        highest one actually used in the match are output (corresponding to the
        return code from pcre[16|32]_exec()). Values in the offsets vector cor-
-       responding to higher numbers should be set to -1, and these are  output
-       as  "<unset>".  This modifier gives a way of checking that this is hap-
+       responding  to higher numbers should be set to -1, and these are output
+       as "<unset>". This modifier gives a way of checking that this  is  hap-
        pening.


-       The /B modifier is a debugging feature. It requests that pcretest  out-
-       put  a  representation of the compiled code after compilation. Normally
-       this information contains length and offset values; however, if  /Z  is
-       also  present,  this data is replaced by spaces. This is a special fea-
-       ture for use in the automatic test scripts; it ensures  that  the  same
+       The  /B modifier is a debugging feature. It requests that pcretest out-
+       put a representation of the compiled code after  compilation.  Normally
+       this  information  contains length and offset values; however, if /Z is
+       also present, this data is replaced by spaces. This is a  special  fea-
+       ture  for  use  in the automatic test scripts; it ensures that the same
        output is generated for different internal link sizes.


-       The  /D modifier is a PCRE debugging feature, and is equivalent to /BI,
+       The /D modifier is a PCRE debugging feature, and is equivalent to  /BI,
        that is, both the /B and the /I modifiers.


-       The /F modifier causes pcretest to flip the byte order  of  the  2-byte
+       The  /F  modifier  causes pcretest to flip the byte order of the 2-byte
        and 4-byte fields in the compiled pattern. This facility is for testing
-       the feature in PCRE that allows it to execute patterns that  were  com-
+       the  feature  in PCRE that allows it to execute patterns that were com-
        piled on a host with a different endianness. This feature is not avail-
-       able when the POSIX interface to PCRE is being used, that is, when  the
+       able  when the POSIX interface to PCRE is being used, that is, when the
        /P pattern modifier is specified. See also the section about saving and
        reloading compiled patterns below.


-       The /I modifier requests that pcretest  output  information  about  the
-       compiled  pattern (whether it is anchored, has a fixed first character,
-       and so on). It does this by calling pcre[16|32]_fullinfo()  after  com-
-       piling  a  pattern.  If the pattern is studied, the results of that are
+       The  /I  modifier  requests  that pcretest output information about the
+       compiled pattern (whether it is anchored, has a fixed first  character,
+       and  so  on). It does this by calling pcre[16|32]_fullinfo() after com-
+       piling a pattern. If the pattern is studied, the results  of  that  are
        also output.


-       The /K modifier requests pcretest to show names from backtracking  con-
-       trol  verbs  that  are  returned  from  calls to pcre[16|32]_exec(). It
-       causes pcretest to create a pcre[16|32]_extra  block  if  one  has  not
-       already  been  created by a call to pcre[16|32]_study(), and to set the
-       PCRE_EXTRA_MARK flag and the mark field  within  it,  every  time  that
-       pcre[16|32]_exec()  is  called.  If  the  variable  that the mark field
-       points to is  non-NULL  for  a  match,  non-match,  or  partial  match,
-       pcretest  prints  the  string  to which it points. For a match, this is
-       shown on a line by itself, tagged with "MK:". For  a  non-match  it  is
+       The  /K modifier requests pcretest to show names from backtracking con-
+       trol verbs that are  returned  from  calls  to  pcre[16|32]_exec().  It
+       causes  pcretest  to  create  a  pcre[16|32]_extra block if one has not
+       already been created by a call to pcre[16|32]_study(), and to  set  the
+       PCRE_EXTRA_MARK  flag  and  the  mark  field within it, every time that
+       pcre[16|32]_exec() is called. If  the  variable  that  the  mark  field
+       points  to  is  non-NULL  for  a  match,  non-match,  or partial match,
+       pcretest prints the string to which it points. For  a  match,  this  is
+       shown  on  a  line  by itself, tagged with "MK:". For a non-match it is
        added to the message.


-       The  /L modifier must be followed directly by the name of a locale, for
+       The /L modifier must be followed directly by the name of a locale,  for
        example,


          /pattern/Lfr_FR


        For this reason, it must be the last modifier. The given locale is set,
-       pcre[16|32]_maketables()  is  called to build a set of character tables
-       for the locale, and this is then passed to  pcre[16|32]_compile()  when
-       compiling  the regular expression. Without an /L (or /T) modifier, NULL
-       is passed as the tables pointer;  that  is,  /L  applies  only  to  the
+       pcre[16|32]_maketables() is called to build a set of  character  tables
+       for  the  locale, and this is then passed to pcre[16|32]_compile() when
+       compiling the regular expression. Without an /L (or /T) modifier,  NULL
+       is  passed  as  the  tables  pointer;  that  is, /L applies only to the
        expression on which it appears.


-       The  /M  modifier  causes the size in bytes of the memory block used to
-       hold the compiled pattern to be output. This does not include the  size
-       of  the  pcre[16|32] block; it is just the actual compiled data. If the
+       The /M modifier causes the size in bytes of the memory  block  used  to
+       hold  the compiled pattern to be output. This does not include the size
+       of the pcre[16|32] block; it is just the actual compiled data.  If  the
        pattern is successfully studied with the PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE option,
        the size of the JIT compiled code is also output.


-       The  /S  modifier  causes  pcre[16|32]_study()  to  be called after the
-       expression has been compiled, and the results used when the  expression
+       The /S modifier causes  pcre[16|32]_study()  to  be  called  after  the
+       expression  has been compiled, and the results used when the expression
        is matched. There are a number of qualifying characters that may follow
        /S.  They may appear in any order.


-       If S is followed by an exclamation mark, pcre[16|32]_study() is  called
-       with  the PCRE_STUDY_EXTRA_NEEDED option, causing it always to return a
+       If /S is followed by an exclamation mark, pcre[16|32]_study() is called
+       with the PCRE_STUDY_EXTRA_NEEDED option, causing it always to return  a
        pcre_extra block, even when studying discovers no useful information.


        If /S is followed by a second S character, it suppresses studying, even
-       if  it  was  requested  externally  by the -s command line option. This
-       makes it possible to specify that certain patterns are always  studied,
+       if it was requested externally by the  -s  command  line  option.  This
+       makes  it possible to specify that certain patterns are always studied,
        and others are never studied, independently of -s. This feature is used
        in the test files in a few cases where the output is different when the
        pattern is studied.


-       If  the  /S  modifier  is  followed  by  a  +  character,  the  call to
-       pcre[16|32]_study() is made with all the JIT study options,  requesting
-       just-in-time  optimization  support if it is available, for both normal
-       and partial matching. If you want to restrict the JIT compiling  modes,
+       If the  /S  modifier  is  followed  by  a  +  character,  the  call  to
+       pcre[16|32]_study()  is made with all the JIT study options, requesting
+       just-in-time optimization support if it is available, for  both  normal
+       and  partial matching. If you want to restrict the JIT compiling modes,
        you can follow /S+ with a digit in the range 1 to 7:


          1  normal match only
@@ -514,40 +523,40 @@
          7  all three modes (default)


        If /S++ is used instead of /S+ (with or without a following digit), the
-       text "(JIT)" is added to the first output line  after  a  match  or  no
+       text  "(JIT)"  is  added  to  the first output line after a match or no
        match when JIT-compiled code was actually used.


-       Note  that  there  is  also  an independent /+ modifier; it must not be
+       Note that there is also an independent /+  modifier;  it  must  not  be
        given immediately after /S or /S+ because this will be misinterpreted.


        If JIT studying is successful, the compiled JIT code will automatically
-       be  used  when pcre[16|32]_exec() is run, except when incompatible run-
-       time options are specified. For more details, see the pcrejit  documen-
-       tation.  See also the \J escape sequence below for a way of setting the
+       be used when pcre[16|32]_exec() is run, except when  incompatible  run-
+       time  options are specified. For more details, see the pcrejit documen-
+       tation. See also the \J escape sequence below for a way of setting  the
        size of the JIT stack.


-       Finally, if /S is followed by a minus  character,  JIT  compilation  is
-       suppressed,  even if it was requested externally by the -s command line
-       option. This makes it possible to specify that JIT is never to be  used
+       Finally,  if  /S  is  followed by a minus character, JIT compilation is
+       suppressed, even if it was requested externally by the -s command  line
+       option.  This makes it possible to specify that JIT is never to be used
        for certain patterns.


-       The  /T  modifier  must be followed by a single digit. It causes a spe-
+       The /T modifier must be followed by a single digit. It  causes  a  spe-
        cific set of built-in character tables to be passed to pcre[16|32]_com-
-       pile().  It  is used in the standard PCRE tests to check behaviour with
+       pile(). It is used in the standard PCRE tests to check  behaviour  with
        different character tables. The digit specifies the tables as follows:


          0   the default ASCII tables, as distributed in
                pcre_chartables.c.dist
          1   a set of tables defining ISO 8859 characters


-       In table 1, some characters whose codes are greater than 128 are  iden-
+       In  table 1, some characters whose codes are greater than 128 are iden-
        tified as letters, digits, spaces, etc.


    Using the POSIX wrapper API


-       The  /P modifier causes pcretest to call PCRE via the POSIX wrapper API
-       rather than its native API. This supports only the 8-bit library.  When
-       /P  is set, the following modifiers set options for the regcomp() func-
+       The /P modifier causes pcretest to call PCRE via the POSIX wrapper  API
+       rather  than its native API. This supports only the 8-bit library. When
+       /P is set, the following modifiers set options for the regcomp()  func-
        tion:


          /i    REG_ICASE
@@ -558,10 +567,41 @@
          /W    REG_UCP        )   the POSIX standard
          /8    REG_UTF8       )


-       The /+ modifier works as  described  above.  All  other  modifiers  are
+       The  /+  modifier  works  as  described  above. All other modifiers are
        ignored.


+ Locking out certain modifiers

+       PCRE can be compiled with or without support for certain features  such
+       as  UTF-8/16/32  or Unicode properties. Accordingly, the standard tests
+       are split up into a number of different files  that  are  selected  for
+       running  depending  on  which features are available. When updating the
+       tests, it is all too easy to put a new test into the wrong file by mis-
+       take;  for example, to put a test that requires UTF support into a file
+       that is used when it is not available. To help detect such mistakes  as
+       early  as  possible, there is a facility for locking out specific modi-
+       fiers. If an input line for pcretest starts with the string "< forbid "
+       the  following  sequence  of characters is taken as a list of forbidden
+       modifiers. For example, in the test files that must not use UTF or Uni-
+       code property support, this line appears:
+
+         < forbid 8W
+
+       This  locks out the /8 and /W modifiers. An immediate error is given if
+       they are subsequently encountered. If the character string  contains  <
+       but  not  >,  all  the  multi-character modifiers that begin with < are
+       locked out. Otherwise, such modifiers must be  explicitly  listed,  for
+       example:
+
+         < forbid <JS><cr>
+
+       There must be a single space between < and "forbid" for this feature to
+       be recognised. If there is not, the line is  interpreted  either  as  a
+       request  to  re-load  a pre-compiled pattern (see "SAVING AND RELOADING
+       COMPILED PATTERNS" below) or, if there is a another < character,  as  a
+       pattern that uses < as its delimiter.
+
+
 DATA LINES


        Before  each  data  line  is  passed to pcre[16|32]_exec(), leading and
@@ -583,6 +623,7 @@
          \v         vertical tab (\x0b)
          \nnn       octal character (up to 3 octal digits); always
                       a byte unless > 255 in UTF-8 or 16-bit or 32-bit mode
+         \o{dd...}  octal character (any number of octal digits}
          \xhh       hexadecimal byte (up to 2 hex digits)
          \x{hh...}  hexadecimal character (any number of hex digits)
          \A         pass the PCRE_ANCHORED option to pcre[16|32]_exec()
@@ -974,50 +1015,51 @@
        writing the file, pcretest expects to read a new pattern.


        A  saved  pattern  can  be reloaded into pcretest by specifying < and a
-       file name instead of a pattern. The name of the file must not contain a
-       < character, as otherwise pcretest will interpret the line as a pattern
-       delimited by < characters.  For example:
+       file name instead of a pattern. There must be no space  between  <  and
+       the  file  name,  which  must  not  contain a < character, as otherwise
+       pcretest will interpret the line as a pattern delimited  by  <  charac-
+       ters. For example:


           re> </some/file
          Compiled pattern loaded from /some/file
          No study data


-       If the pattern was previously studied with the  JIT  optimization,  the
-       JIT  information cannot be saved and restored, and so is lost. When the
-       pattern has been loaded, pcretest proceeds to read data  lines  in  the
+       If  the  pattern  was previously studied with the JIT optimization, the
+       JIT information cannot be saved and restored, and so is lost. When  the
+       pattern  has  been  loaded, pcretest proceeds to read data lines in the
        usual way.


-       You  can copy a file written by pcretest to a different host and reload
-       it there, even if the new host has opposite endianness to  the  one  on
-       which  the pattern was compiled. For example, you can compile on an i86
-       machine and run on a SPARC machine. When a pattern  is  reloaded  on  a
+       You can copy a file written by pcretest to a different host and  reload
+       it  there,  even  if the new host has opposite endianness to the one on
+       which the pattern was compiled. For example, you can compile on an  i86
+       machine  and  run  on  a SPARC machine. When a pattern is reloaded on a
        host with different endianness, the confirmation message is changed to:


          Compiled pattern (byte-inverted) loaded from /some/file


        The test suite contains some saved pre-compiled patterns with different
-       endianness. These are reloaded using "<!" instead  of  just  "<".  This
+       endianness.  These  are  reloaded  using "<!" instead of just "<". This
        suppresses the "(byte-inverted)" text so that the output is the same on
-       all hosts. It also forces debugging output once the  pattern  has  been
+       all  hosts.  It  also forces debugging output once the pattern has been
        reloaded.


-       File  names  for  saving and reloading can be absolute or relative, but
-       note that the shell facility of expanding a file name that starts  with
+       File names for saving and reloading can be absolute  or  relative,  but
+       note  that the shell facility of expanding a file name that starts with
        a tilde (~) is not available.


-       The  ability to save and reload files in pcretest is intended for test-
-       ing and experimentation. It is not intended for production use  because
-       only  a  single pattern can be written to a file. Furthermore, there is
-       no facility for supplying  custom  character  tables  for  use  with  a
-       reloaded  pattern.  If  the  original  pattern was compiled with custom
-       tables, an attempt to match a subject string using a  reloaded  pattern
-       is  likely to cause pcretest to crash.  Finally, if you attempt to load
+       The ability to save and reload files in pcretest is intended for  test-
+       ing  and experimentation. It is not intended for production use because
+       only a single pattern can be written to a file. Furthermore,  there  is
+       no  facility  for  supplying  custom  character  tables  for use with a
+       reloaded pattern. If the original  pattern  was  compiled  with  custom
+       tables,  an  attempt to match a subject string using a reloaded pattern
+       is likely to cause pcretest to crash.  Finally, if you attempt to  load
        a file that is not in the correct format, the result is undefined.



SEE ALSO

-       pcre(3), pcre16(3),  pcre32(3),  pcreapi(3),  pcrecallout(3),  pcrejit,
+       pcre(3),  pcre16(3),  pcre32(3),  pcreapi(3),  pcrecallout(3), pcrejit,
        pcrematching(3), pcrepartial(d), pcrepattern(3), pcreprecompile(3).



@@ -1030,5 +1072,5 @@

REVISION

-       Last updated: 26 April 2013
+       Last updated: 12 November 2013
        Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.


Modified: code/trunk/pcre_compile.c
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/pcre_compile.c    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/pcre_compile.c    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -532,8 +532,8 @@
   "non-octal character in \\o{} (closing brace missing?)\0"
   "missing opening brace after \\o\0"
   "parentheses are too deeply nested\0"
-  "invalid range in character class\0" 
-  "group name must start with a non-digit\0" 
+  "invalid range in character class\0"
+  "group name must start with a non-digit\0"
   ;


/* Table to identify digits and hex digits. This is used when compiling
@@ -4446,7 +4446,7 @@
/* Get next character in the pattern */

c = *ptr;
-
+
/* If we are at the end of a nested substitution, revert to the outer level
string. Nesting only happens one level deep. */

@@ -4548,12 +4548,12 @@
         }
       goto NORMAL_CHAR;
       }
-    /* Control does not reach here. */   
+    /* Control does not reach here. */
     }


-  /* In extended mode, skip white space and comments. We need a loop in order 
+  /* In extended mode, skip white space and comments. We need a loop in order
   to check for more white space and more comments after a comment. */
-  
+
   if ((options & PCRE_EXTENDED) != 0)
     {
     for (;;)
@@ -4564,8 +4564,8 @@
       while (*ptr != CHAR_NULL)
         {
         if (IS_NEWLINE(ptr))         /* For non-fixed-length newline cases, */
-          {                          /* IS_NEWLINE sets cd->nllen. */         
-          ptr += cd->nllen;            
+          {                          /* IS_NEWLINE sets cd->nllen. */
+          ptr += cd->nllen;
           break;
           }
         ptr++;
@@ -4574,7 +4574,7 @@
 #endif
         }
       c = *ptr;     /* Either NULL or the char after a newline */
-      }   
+      }
     }


   /* See if the next thing is a quantifier. */
@@ -4602,7 +4602,7 @@
     previous_callout = code;
     code = auto_callout(code, ptr, cd);
     }
-    
+
   /* Process the next pattern item. */


   switch(c)
@@ -4861,19 +4861,19 @@
           unsigned int ptype = 0;
           int pc = posix_class + ((local_negate)? POSIX_SUBSIZE/2 : 0);


-          /* The posix_substitutes table specifies which POSIX classes can be 
+          /* The posix_substitutes table specifies which POSIX classes can be
           converted to \p or \P items. */
-           
+
           if (posix_substitutes[pc] != NULL)
             {
             nestptr = tempptr + 1;
             ptr = posix_substitutes[pc] - 1;
             continue;
             }
-            
-          /* There are three other classes that generate special property calls 
-          that are recognized only in an XCLASS. */ 


+          /* There are three other classes that generate special property calls
+          that are recognized only in an XCLASS. */
+
           else switch(posix_class)
             {
             case PC_GRAPH:
@@ -4889,12 +4889,12 @@
             *class_uchardata++ = 0;
             ptr = tempptr + 1;
             continue;
-            
+
             /* For all other POSIX classes, no special action is taken in UCP
             mode. Fall through to the non_UCP case. */


             default:
-            break; 
+            break;
             }
           }
 #endif
@@ -5153,45 +5153,45 @@
         else
 #endif
         d = *ptr;  /* Not UTF-8 mode */
-        
+
         /* The second part of a range can be a single-character escape
         sequence, but not any of the other escapes. Perl treats a hyphen as a
         literal in such circumstances. However, in Perl's warning mode, a
-        warning is given, so PCRE now faults it as it is almost certainly a 
+        warning is given, so PCRE now faults it as it is almost certainly a
         mistake on the user's part. */


         if (!inescq)
-          { 
+          {
           if (d == CHAR_BACKSLASH)
             {
             int descape;
             descape = check_escape(&ptr, &d, errorcodeptr, cd->bracount, options, TRUE);
             if (*errorcodeptr != 0) goto FAILED;
-          
+
             /* 0 means a character was put into d; \b is backspace; any other
             special causes an error. */
-          
+
             if (descape != 0)
               {
               if (descape == ESC_b) d = CHAR_BS; else
                 {
                 *errorcodeptr = ERR83;
-                goto FAILED; 
+                goto FAILED;
                 }
               }
             }
-        
+
           /* A hyphen followed by a POSIX class is treated in the same way. */
-          
-          else if (d == CHAR_LEFT_SQUARE_BRACKET && 
+
+          else if (d == CHAR_LEFT_SQUARE_BRACKET &&
                    (ptr[1] == CHAR_COLON || ptr[1] == CHAR_DOT ||
-                    ptr[1] == CHAR_EQUALS_SIGN) && 
+                    ptr[1] == CHAR_EQUALS_SIGN) &&
                    check_posix_syntax(ptr, &tempptr))
             {
             *errorcodeptr = ERR83;
-            goto FAILED;          
-            }  
-          }   
+            goto FAILED;
+            }
+          }


         /* Check that the two values are in the correct order. Optimize
         one-character ranges. */
@@ -5453,11 +5453,11 @@
     insert something before it. */


     tempcode = previous;
-    
-    /* Before checking for a possessive quantifier, we must skip over 
-    whitespace and comments in extended mode because Perl allows white space at 
+
+    /* Before checking for a possessive quantifier, we must skip over
+    whitespace and comments in extended mode because Perl allows white space at
     this point. */
- 
+
     if ((options & PCRE_EXTENDED) != 0)
       {
       const pcre_uchar *p = ptr + 1;
@@ -5469,8 +5469,8 @@
         while (*p != CHAR_NULL)
           {
           if (IS_NEWLINE(p))         /* For non-fixed-length newline cases, */
-            {                        /* IS_NEWLINE sets cd->nllen. */         
-            p += cd->nllen;            
+            {                        /* IS_NEWLINE sets cd->nllen. */
+            p += cd->nllen;
             break;
             }
           p++;
@@ -6572,19 +6572,19 @@
           if (*ptr == CHAR_MINUS || *ptr == CHAR_PLUS) refsign = *ptr++;
             else if (IS_DIGIT(*ptr)) refsign = 0;
           }
-          
+
         /* Handle a number */
-        
+
         if (refsign >= 0)
           {
           recno = 0;
-          while (IS_DIGIT(*ptr)) 
+          while (IS_DIGIT(*ptr))
             {
-            recno = recno * 10 + (int)(*ptr - CHAR_0); 
+            recno = recno * 10 + (int)(*ptr - CHAR_0);
             ptr++;
-            }  
-          }   
-          
+            }
+          }
+
         /* Otherwise we expect to read a name; anything else is an error. When
         a name is one of a number of duplicates, a different opcode is used and
         it needs more memory. Unfortunately we cannot tell whether a name is a
@@ -6596,7 +6596,7 @@
             {
             *errorcodeptr = ERR84;
             goto FAILED;
-            }      
+            }
           if (!MAX_255(*ptr) || (cd->ctypes[*ptr] & ctype_word) == 0)
             {
             *errorcodeptr = ERR28;   /* Assertion expected */
@@ -6626,9 +6626,9 @@
         if (lengthptr != NULL) break;


         /* In the real compile we do the work of looking for the actual
-        reference. If refsign is not negative, it means we have a number in 
+        reference. If refsign is not negative, it means we have a number in
         recno. */
-        
+
         if (refsign >= 0)
           {
           if (recno <= 0)
@@ -6743,16 +6743,16 @@
         ptr++;
         break;


-        /* Optimize (?!) to (*FAIL) unless it is quantified - which is a weird 
-        thing to do, but Perl allows all assertions to be quantified, and when 
-        they contain capturing parentheses there may be a potential use for 
-        this feature. Not that that applies to a quantified (?!) but we allow 
+        /* Optimize (?!) to (*FAIL) unless it is quantified - which is a weird
+        thing to do, but Perl allows all assertions to be quantified, and when
+        they contain capturing parentheses there may be a potential use for
+        this feature. Not that that applies to a quantified (?!) but we allow
         it for uniformity. */


         /* ------------------------------------------------------------ */
         case CHAR_EXCLAMATION_MARK:            /* Negative lookahead */
         ptr++;
-        if (*ptr == CHAR_RIGHT_PARENTHESIS && ptr[1] != CHAR_ASTERISK && 
+        if (*ptr == CHAR_RIGHT_PARENTHESIS && ptr[1] != CHAR_ASTERISK &&
              ptr[1] != CHAR_PLUS && ptr[1] != CHAR_QUESTION_MARK &&
             (ptr[1] != CHAR_LEFT_CURLY_BRACKET || !is_counted_repeat(ptr+2)))
           {
@@ -6853,8 +6853,8 @@
         if (IS_DIGIT(*ptr))
           {
           *errorcodeptr = ERR84;   /* Group name must start with non-digit */
-          goto FAILED;  
-          }  
+          goto FAILED;
+          }
         while (MAX_255(*ptr) && (cd->ctypes[*ptr] & ctype_word) != 0) ptr++;
         namelen = (int)(ptr - name);


@@ -6971,8 +6971,8 @@
         if (IS_DIGIT(*ptr))
           {
           *errorcodeptr = ERR84;   /* Group name must start with non-digit */
-          goto FAILED;  
-          }  
+          goto FAILED;
+          }
         while (MAX_255(*ptr) && (cd->ctypes[*ptr] & ctype_word) != 0) ptr++;
         namelen = (int)(ptr - name);


@@ -7371,9 +7371,9 @@
     if ((cd->parens_depth += 1) > PARENS_NEST_LIMIT)
       {
       *errorcodeptr = ERR82;
-      goto FAILED;  
-      }  
- 
+      goto FAILED;
+      }
+
     /* Assertions used not to be repeatable, but this was changed for Perl
     compatibility, so all kinds can now be repeated. We copy code into a
     non-register variable (tempcode) in order to be able to pass its address
@@ -7407,7 +7407,7 @@
            &length_prevgroup              /* Pre-compile phase */
          ))
       goto FAILED;
-      
+
     cd->parens_depth -= 1;


     /* If this was an atomic group and there are no capturing groups within it,
@@ -7625,7 +7625,7 @@
         {
         const pcre_uchar *p;
         pcre_uint32 cf;
-          
+
         save_hwm = cd->hwm;   /* Normally this is set when '(' is read */
         terminator = (*(++ptr) == CHAR_LESS_THAN_SIGN)?
           CHAR_GREATER_THAN_SIGN : CHAR_APOSTROPHE;
@@ -7647,7 +7647,7 @@
           goto NAMED_REF_OR_RECURSE;
           }


-        /* Signed or unsigned number (cf = ptr[1]) is known to be plus or minus 
+        /* Signed or unsigned number (cf = ptr[1]) is known to be plus or minus
         or a digit. */


         p = ptr + 2;
@@ -8935,7 +8935,7 @@
     cd->nl[0] = newline;
     }
   }
-  
+
 /* Maximum back reference and backref bitmap. The bitmap records up to 31 back
 references to help in deciding whether (.*) can be treated as anchored or not.
 */


Modified: code/trunk/pcre_dfa_exec.c
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/pcre_dfa_exec.c    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/pcre_dfa_exec.c    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -2618,7 +2618,7 @@


           case OP_CRRANGE:
           case OP_CRMINRANGE:
-          case OP_CRPOSRANGE: 
+          case OP_CRPOSRANGE:
           count = current_state->count;  /* Already matched */
           if (count >= (int)GET2(ecode, 1))
             { ADD_ACTIVE(next_state_offset + 1 + 2 * IMM2_SIZE, 0); }
@@ -2629,7 +2629,7 @@
               {
               active_count--;           /* Remove non-match possibility */
               next_active_state--;
-              }     
+              }
             if (++count >= max && max != 0)   /* Max 0 => no limit */
               { ADD_NEW(next_state_offset + 1 + 2 * IMM2_SIZE, 0); }
             else


Modified: code/trunk/pcre_exec.c
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/pcre_exec.c    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/pcre_exec.c    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@
        RM31,  RM32, RM33, RM34, RM35, RM36, RM37, RM38, RM39, RM40,
        RM41,  RM42, RM43, RM44, RM45, RM46, RM47, RM48, RM49, RM50,
        RM51,  RM52, RM53, RM54, RM55, RM56, RM57, RM58, RM59, RM60,
-       RM61,  RM62, RM63, RM64, RM65, RM66, RM67, RM68 };
+       RM61,  RM62, RM63, RM64, RM65, RM66, RM67 };


 /* These versions of the macros use the stack, as normal. There are debugging
 versions and production versions. Note that the "rw" argument of RMATCH isn't
@@ -5054,7 +5054,7 @@
           case PT_UCNC:
           for (fi = min;; fi++)
             {
-            RMATCH(eptr, ecode, offset_top, md, eptrb, RM68);
+            RMATCH(eptr, ecode, offset_top, md, eptrb, RM60);
             if (rrc != MATCH_NOMATCH) RRETURN(rrc);
             if (fi >= max) RRETURN(MATCH_NOMATCH);
             if (eptr >= md->end_subject)
@@ -6227,7 +6227,7 @@
   LBL(32) LBL(34) LBL(42) LBL(46)
 #ifdef SUPPORT_UCP
   LBL(36) LBL(37) LBL(38) LBL(39) LBL(40) LBL(41) LBL(44) LBL(45)
-  LBL(59) LBL(60) LBL(61) LBL(62) LBL(67) LBL(68)
+  LBL(59) LBL(60) LBL(61) LBL(62) LBL(67)
 #endif  /* SUPPORT_UCP */
 #endif  /* SUPPORT_UTF */
   default:


Modified: code/trunk/pcre_fullinfo.c
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/pcre_fullinfo.c    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/pcre_fullinfo.c    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -231,10 +231,10 @@
   if ((re->flags & PCRE_RLSET) == 0) return PCRE_ERROR_UNSET;
   *((pcre_uint32 *)where) = re->limit_recursion;
   break;
-  
-  case PCRE_INFO_MATCH_EMPTY: 
+
+  case PCRE_INFO_MATCH_EMPTY:
   *((int *)where) = (re->flags & PCRE_MATCH_EMPTY) != 0;
-  break; 
+  break;


default: return PCRE_ERROR_BADOPTION;
}

Modified: code/trunk/pcre_internal.h
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/pcre_internal.h    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/pcre_internal.h    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -1857,10 +1857,10 @@
 #define PT_UCNC      10    /* Universal Character nameable character */
 #define PT_TABSIZE   11    /* Size of square table for autopossessify tests */


-/* The following special properties are used only in XCLASS items, when POSIX
-classes are specified and PCRE_UCP is set - in other words, for Unicode
-handling of these classes. They are not available via the \p or \P escapes like
-those in the above list, and so they do not take part in the autopossessifying
+/* The following special properties are used only in XCLASS items, when POSIX
+classes are specified and PCRE_UCP is set - in other words, for Unicode
+handling of these classes. They are not available via the \p or \P escapes like
+those in the above list, and so they do not take part in the autopossessifying
table. */

 #define PT_PXGRAPH   11    /* [:graph:] - characters that mark the paper */
@@ -1908,7 +1908,7 @@


/********************** Opcode definitions ******************/

-/****** NOTE NOTE NOTE ******
+/****** NOTE NOTE NOTE ******

 Starting from 1 (i.e. after OP_END), the values up to OP_EOD must correspond in
 order to the list of escapes immediately above. Furthermore, values up to
@@ -1961,16 +1961,16 @@
   OP_EXTUNI,         /* 22 \X (extended Unicode sequence */
   OP_EODN,           /* 23 End of data or \n at end of data (\Z) */
   OP_EOD,            /* 24 End of data (\z) */
-  
+
   /* Line end assertions */


   OP_DOLL,           /* 25 End of line - not multiline */
   OP_DOLLM,          /* 26 End of line - multiline */
   OP_CIRC,           /* 27 Start of line - not multiline */
   OP_CIRCM,          /* 28 Start of line - multiline */
-  
+
   /* Single characters; caseful must precede the caseless ones */
-   
+
   OP_CHAR,           /* 29 Match one character, casefully */
   OP_CHARI,          /* 30 Match one character, caselessly */
   OP_NOT,            /* 31 Match one character, not the given one, casefully */
@@ -2493,7 +2493,7 @@
   int  top_backref;                 /* Maximum back reference */
   unsigned int backref_map;         /* Bitmap of low back refs */
   unsigned int namedrefcount;       /* Number of backreferences by name */
-  int  parens_depth;                /* Depth of nested parentheses */ 
+  int  parens_depth;                /* Depth of nested parentheses */
   int  assert_depth;                /* Depth of nested assertions */
   pcre_uint32 external_options;     /* External (initial) options */
   pcre_uint32 external_flags;       /* External flag bits to be set */


Modified: code/trunk/pcre_maketables.c
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/pcre_maketables.c    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/pcre_maketables.c    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) *p++ = islower(i)? toupper(i) : tolower(i);


/* Then the character class tables. Don't try to be clever and save effort on
-exclusive ones - in some locales things may be different.
+exclusive ones - in some locales things may be different.

Note that the table for "space" includes everything "isspace" gives, including
VT in the default locale. This makes it work for the POSIX class [:space:].
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@

/* Finally, the character type table. In this, we used to exclude VT from the
white space chars, because Perl didn't recognize it as such for \s and for
-comments within regexes. However, Perl changed at release 5.18, so PCRE changed
+comments within regexes. However, Perl changed at release 5.18, so PCRE changed
at release 8.34. */

for (i = 0; i < 256; i++)

Modified: code/trunk/pcre_printint.c
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/pcre_printint.c    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/pcre_printint.c    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -430,11 +430,11 @@


     case OP_DNCREF:
       {
-      pcre_uchar *entry = (pcre_uchar *)re + offset + (GET2(code, 1) * size) + 
-        IMM2_SIZE;  
+      pcre_uchar *entry = (pcre_uchar *)re + offset + (GET2(code, 1) * size) +
+        IMM2_SIZE;
       fprintf(f, " %s Cond ref <", flag);
       print_puchar(f, entry);
-      fprintf(f, ">%d", GET2(code, 1 + IMM2_SIZE)); 
+      fprintf(f, ">%d", GET2(code, 1 + IMM2_SIZE));
       }
     break;


@@ -448,11 +448,11 @@

     case OP_DNRREF:
       {
-      pcre_uchar *entry = (pcre_uchar *)re + offset + (GET2(code, 1) * size) + 
-        IMM2_SIZE;  
+      pcre_uchar *entry = (pcre_uchar *)re + offset + (GET2(code, 1) * size) +
+        IMM2_SIZE;
       fprintf(f, " %s Cond recurse <", flag);
       print_puchar(f, entry);
-      fprintf(f, ">%d", GET2(code, 1 + IMM2_SIZE)); 
+      fprintf(f, ">%d", GET2(code, 1 + IMM2_SIZE));
       }
     break;


@@ -614,11 +614,11 @@
     /* Fall through */
     case OP_DNREF:
       {
-      pcre_uchar *entry = (pcre_uchar *)re + offset + (GET2(code, 1) * size) + 
-        IMM2_SIZE;  
+      pcre_uchar *entry = (pcre_uchar *)re + offset + (GET2(code, 1) * size) +
+        IMM2_SIZE;
       fprintf(f, " %s \\k<", flag);
       print_puchar(f, entry);
-      fprintf(f, ">%d", GET2(code, 1 + IMM2_SIZE)); 
+      fprintf(f, ">%d", GET2(code, 1 + IMM2_SIZE));
       }
     ccode = code + priv_OP_lengths[*code];
     goto CLASS_REF_REPEAT;
@@ -696,43 +696,43 @@
         pcre_uchar ch;
         while ((ch = *ccode++) != XCL_END)
           {
-          BOOL not = FALSE; 
-          const char *notch = ""; 
-           
+          BOOL not = FALSE;
+          const char *notch = "";
+
           switch(ch)
             {
-            case XCL_NOTPROP: 
+            case XCL_NOTPROP:
             not = TRUE;
-            notch = "^"; 
+            notch = "^";
             /* Fall through */
-               
-            case XCL_PROP:  
+
+            case XCL_PROP:
               {
               unsigned int ptype = *ccode++;
               unsigned int pvalue = *ccode++;
-              
+
               switch(ptype)
                 {
                 case PT_PXGRAPH:
                 fprintf(f, "[:%sgraph:]", notch);
-                break;    
+                break;


                 case PT_PXPRINT:
                 fprintf(f, "[:%sprint:]", notch);
-                break;    
+                break;


                 case PT_PXPUNCT:
                 fprintf(f, "[:%spunct:]", notch);
-                break;    
+                break;


                 default:
-                fprintf(f, "\\%c{%s}", (not? 'P':'p'), 
+                fprintf(f, "\\%c{%s}", (not? 'P':'p'),
                   get_ucpname(ptype, pvalue));
                 break;
-                }    
+                }
               }
             break;
-             
+
             default:
             ccode += 1 + print_char(f, ccode, utf);
             if (ch == XCL_RANGE)
@@ -740,8 +740,8 @@
               fprintf(f, "-");
               ccode += 1 + print_char(f, ccode, utf);
               }
-            break; 
-            } 
+            break;
+            }
           }
         }



Modified: code/trunk/pcre_study.c
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/pcre_study.c    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/pcre_study.c    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 */


 static int
-find_minlength(const REAL_PCRE *re, const pcre_uchar *code, 
+find_minlength(const REAL_PCRE *re, const pcre_uchar *code,
   const pcre_uchar *startcode, int options, int recurse_depth)
 {
 int length = -1;
@@ -379,13 +379,13 @@
     If PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT is set, a backreference to an unset bracket
     matches an empty string (by default it causes a matching failure), so in
     that case we must set the minimum length to zero. */
-    
+
     case OP_DNREF:     /* Duplicate named pattern back reference */
     case OP_DNREFI:
     if ((options & PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT) == 0)
       {
-      int count = GET2(cc, 1+IMM2_SIZE); 
-      pcre_uchar *slot = (pcre_uchar *)re + 
+      int count = GET2(cc, 1+IMM2_SIZE);
+      pcre_uchar *slot = (pcre_uchar *)re +
         re->name_table_offset + GET2(cc, 1) * re->name_entry_size;
       d = INT_MAX;
       while (count-- > 0)
@@ -397,19 +397,19 @@
           {
           d = 0;
           had_recurse = TRUE;
-          break; 
+          break;
           }
         else
           {
           int dd = find_minlength(re, cs, startcode, options, recurse_depth);
-          if (dd < d) d = dd; 
+          if (dd < d) d = dd;
           }
         slot += re->name_entry_size;
-        }  
+        }
       }
-    else d = 0;     
+    else d = 0;
     cc += 1 + 2*IMM2_SIZE;
-    goto REPEAT_BACK_REFERENCE;     
+    goto REPEAT_BACK_REFERENCE;


     case OP_REF:      /* Single back reference */
     case OP_REFI:
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@
       had_recurse = TRUE;
     else
       {
-      branchlength += find_minlength(re, cs, startcode, options, 
+      branchlength += find_minlength(re, cs, startcode, options,
         recurse_depth + 1);
       }
     cc += 1 + LINK_SIZE;
@@ -1227,8 +1227,8 @@
         set_type_bits(start_bits, cbit_digit, table_limit, cd);
         break;


-        /* The cbit_space table has vertical tab as whitespace; we no longer 
-        have to play fancy tricks because Perl added VT to its whitespace at 
+        /* The cbit_space table has vertical tab as whitespace; we no longer
+        have to play fancy tricks because Perl added VT to its whitespace at
         release 5.18. PCRE added it at release 8.34. */


         case OP_NOT_WHITESPACE:


Modified: code/trunk/pcre_xclass.c
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/pcre_xclass.c    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/pcre_xclass.c    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
   else  /* XCL_PROP & XCL_NOTPROP */
     {
     const ucd_record *prop = GET_UCD(c);
-    BOOL isprop = t == XCL_PROP; 
+    BOOL isprop = t == XCL_PROP;


     switch(*data)
       {
@@ -163,16 +163,16 @@
       /* Perl space used to exclude VT, but from Perl 5.18 it is included,
       which means that Perl space and POSIX space are now identical. PCRE
       was changed at release 8.34. */
-    
+
       case PT_SPACE:    /* Perl space */
       case PT_PXSPACE:  /* POSIX space */
       switch(c)
         {
         HSPACE_CASES:
         VSPACE_CASES:
-        if (isprop) return !negated; 
+        if (isprop) return !negated;
         break;
-        
+
         default:
         if ((PRIV(ucp_gentype)[prop->chartype] == ucp_Z) == isprop)
           return !negated;
@@ -200,42 +200,42 @@
           return !negated;
         }
       break;
-      
+
       /* The following three properties can occur only in an XCLASS, as there
       is no \p or \P coding for them. */


-      /* Graphic character. Implement this as not Z (space or separator) and 
-      not C (other), except for Cf (format) with a few exceptions. This seems 
+      /* Graphic character. Implement this as not Z (space or separator) and
+      not C (other), except for Cf (format) with a few exceptions. This seems
       to be what Perl does. The exceptional characters are:
-       
+
       U+061C           Arabic Letter Mark
-      U+180E           Mongolian Vowel Separator 
+      U+180E           Mongolian Vowel Separator
       U+2066 - U+2069  Various "isolate"s
-      */ 
-      
+      */
+
       case PT_PXGRAPH:
       if ((PRIV(ucp_gentype)[prop->chartype] != ucp_Z &&
             (PRIV(ucp_gentype)[prop->chartype] != ucp_C ||
-              (prop->chartype == ucp_Cf && 
+              (prop->chartype == ucp_Cf &&
                 c != 0x061c && c != 0x180e && (c < 0x2066 || c > 0x2069))
          )) == isprop)
-        return !negated;        
+        return !negated;
       break;
-      
-      /* Printable character: same as graphic, with the addition of Zs, i.e. 
+
+      /* Printable character: same as graphic, with the addition of Zs, i.e.
       not Zl and not Zp, and U+180E. */


       case PT_PXPRINT:
       if ((prop->chartype != ucp_Zl &&
-           prop->chartype != ucp_Zp && 
+           prop->chartype != ucp_Zp &&
             (PRIV(ucp_gentype)[prop->chartype] != ucp_C ||
-              (prop->chartype == ucp_Cf && 
+              (prop->chartype == ucp_Cf &&
                 c != 0x061c && (c < 0x2066 || c > 0x2069))
          )) == isprop)
-        return !negated;        
+        return !negated;
       break;
-      
-      /* Punctuation: all Unicode punctuation, plus ASCII characters that 
+
+      /* Punctuation: all Unicode punctuation, plus ASCII characters that
       Unicode treats as symbols rather than punctuation, for Perl
       compatibility (these are $+<=>^`|~). */


@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
       if ((PRIV(ucp_gentype)[prop->chartype] == ucp_P ||
             (c < 256 && PRIV(ucp_gentype)[prop->chartype] == ucp_S)) == isprop)
         return !negated;
-      break;           
+      break;


       /* This should never occur, but compilers may mutter if there is no
       default. */


Modified: code/trunk/pcregrep.c
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/pcregrep.c    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/pcregrep.c    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@


/* This is a grep program that uses the PCRE regular expression library to do
its pattern matching. On Unix-like, Windows, and native z/OS systems it can
-recurse into directories, and in z/OS it can handle PDS files.
+recurse into directories, and in z/OS it can handle PDS files.

Note that for native z/OS, in addition to defining the NATIVE_ZOS macro, an
additional header is required. That header is not included in the main PCRE
@@ -2142,7 +2142,7 @@

 if (zos_test_file == NULL)
    {
-   if (!silent) fprintf(stderr, "pcregrep: failed to test next file %s\n", 
+   if (!silent) fprintf(stderr, "pcregrep: failed to test next file %s\n",
      pathname, strerror(errno));
    return -1;
    }


Modified: code/trunk/pcreposix.c
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/pcreposix.c    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/pcreposix.c    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -164,13 +164,13 @@
   REG_BADPAT,  /* character value in \u.... sequence is too large */
   REG_BADPAT,  /* invalid UTF-32 string (should not occur) */
   REG_BADPAT,  /* setting UTF is disabled by the application */
-  REG_BADPAT,  /* non-hex character in \\x{} (closing brace missing?) */ 
-  /* 80 */ 
-  REG_BADPAT,  /* non-octal character in \o{} (closing brace missing?) */ 
+  REG_BADPAT,  /* non-hex character in \\x{} (closing brace missing?) */
+  /* 80 */
+  REG_BADPAT,  /* non-octal character in \o{} (closing brace missing?) */
   REG_BADPAT,  /* missing opening brace after \o */
   REG_BADPAT,  /* parentheses too deeply nested */
-  REG_BADPAT,  /* invalid range in character class */ 
-  REG_BADPAT   /* group name must start with a non-digit */ 
+  REG_BADPAT,  /* invalid range in character class */
+  REG_BADPAT   /* group name must start with a non-digit */
 };


/* Table of texts corresponding to POSIX error codes */

Modified: code/trunk/pcretest.c
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/pcretest.c    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/pcretest.c    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -2832,8 +2832,8 @@
 Arguments:
   p           points after the leading '<'
   f           file for error message
-  nl          TRUE to check only for newline settings 
-  stype       "modifier" or "escape sequence" 
+  nl          TRUE to check only for newline settings
+  stype       "modifier" or "escape sequence"


 Returns:      appropriate PCRE_NEWLINE_xxx flags, or 0
 */
@@ -2852,7 +2852,7 @@
 if (!nl)
   {
   if (strncmpic(p, (pcre_uint8 *)"JS>", 3) == 0) return PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT;
-  } 
+  }


 fprintf(f, "Unknown %s at: <%s\n", stype, p);
 return 0;
@@ -2901,7 +2901,7 @@
 printf("  -i       show information about compiled patterns\n"
        "  -M       find MATCH_LIMIT minimum for each subject\n"
        "  -m       output memory used information\n"
-       "  -O       set PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS on each pattern\n" 
+       "  -O       set PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS on each pattern\n"
        "  -o <n>   set size of offsets vector to <n>\n");
 #if !defined NOPOSIX
 printf("  -p       use POSIX interface\n");
@@ -3102,7 +3102,7 @@
     {
     int temp;
     int both = arg[2] == 0;
-    showtotaltimes = arg[1] == 'T'; 
+    showtotaltimes = arg[1] == 'T';
     if (argc > 2 && (temp = get_value((pcre_uint8 *)argv[op+1], &endptr),
                      *endptr == 0))
       {
@@ -3447,9 +3447,9 @@
   p = buffer;
   while (isspace(*p)) p++;
   if (*p == 0) continue;
-  
+
   /* Handle option lock-out setting */
-  
+
   if (*p == '<' && p[1] == ' ')
     {
     p += 2;
@@ -3458,19 +3458,19 @@
       {
       p += 7;
       while (isspace(*p)) p++;
-      pp = lockout; 
+      pp = lockout;
       while (!isspace(*p) && pp < lockout + sizeof(lockout) - 1)
         *pp++ = *p++;
-      *pp = 0;    
+      *pp = 0;
       }
-    else 
+    else
       {
       printf("** Unrecognized special command '%s'\n", p);
       yield = 1;
-      goto EXIT;  
-      } 
+      goto EXIT;
+      }
     continue;
-    }   
+    }


/* See if the pattern is to be loaded pre-compiled from a file. */

@@ -3660,17 +3660,17 @@
   while (*pp != 0)
     {
     /* Check to see whether this modifier has been locked out for this file.
-    This is complicated for the multi-character options that begin with '<'. 
-    If there is no '>' in the lockout string, all multi-character modifiers are 
-    locked out. */ 
- 
+    This is complicated for the multi-character options that begin with '<'.
+    If there is no '>' in the lockout string, all multi-character modifiers are
+    locked out. */
+
     if (strchr((char *)lockout, *pp) != NULL)
       {
       if (*pp == '<' && strchr((char *)lockout, '>') != NULL)
         {
         int x = check_mc_option(pp+1, outfile, FALSE, "modifier");
         if (x == 0) goto SKIP_DATA;
-         
+
         for (ppp = lockout; *ppp != 0; ppp++)
           {
           if (*ppp == '<')
@@ -3680,33 +3680,33 @@
               {
               printf("** Error in modifier forbid data - giving up.\n");
               yield = 1;
-              goto EXIT;   
+              goto EXIT;
               }
-            if (x == y) 
+            if (x == y)
               {
               ppp = pp;
               while (*ppp != '>') ppp++;
-              printf("** The %.*s modifier is locked out - giving up.\n", 
+              printf("** The %.*s modifier is locked out - giving up.\n",
                 (int)(ppp - pp + 1), pp);
               yield = 1;
-              goto EXIT;     
-              }          
+              goto EXIT;
+              }
             }
-          }       
+          }
         }
-        
+
       /* The single-character modifiers are straightforward. */
-       
+
       else
         {
         printf("** The /%c modifier is locked out - giving up.\n", *pp);
         yield = 1;
-        goto EXIT;    
-        }       
-      }  
-      
+        goto EXIT;
+        }
+      }
+
     /* The modifier is not locked out; handle it. */
- 
+
     switch (*pp++)
       {
       case 'f': options |= PCRE_FIRSTLINE; break;
@@ -4572,7 +4572,7 @@
         while (i++ < 2 && isdigit(*p) && *p != '8' && *p != '9')
           c = c * 8 + *p++ - '0';
         break;
-        
+
         case 'o':
         if (*p == '{')
           {
@@ -4586,9 +4586,9 @@
             else c = c * 8 + *pt - '0';
             }
           if (*pt == '}') p = pt + 1;
-            else fprintf(outfile, "** Missing } after \\o{ (assumed)\n");   
+            else fprintf(outfile, "** Missing } after \\o{ (assumed)\n");
           }
-        break;      
+        break;


         case 'x':
         if (*p == '{')


Modified: code/trunk/perltest.pl
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/perltest.pl    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/perltest.pl    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
   last if ! ($_ = <$infile>);
   printf $outfile "$_" if $infile ne "STDIN";
   next if ($_ =~ /^\s*$/ || $_ =~ /^< forbid/);
-  
+
   $pattern = $_;


while ($pattern !~ /^\s*(.).*\1/s)

Modified: code/trunk/testdata/testoutput13
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/testdata/testoutput13    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/testdata/testoutput13    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@


/a*/SI
Capturing subpattern count = 0
+May match empty string
No options
No first char
No need char

Modified: code/trunk/ucp.h
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/ucp.h    2013-11-19 10:44:59 UTC (rev 1403)
+++ code/trunk/ucp.h    2013-11-19 15:36:57 UTC (rev 1404)
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@


IMPORTANT: Note also that the specific numeric values of the enums have to be
the same as the values that are generated by the maint/MultiStage2.py script,
-where the equivalent property descriptive names are listed in vectors.
+where the equivalent property descriptive names are listed in vectors.

-ALSO: The specific values of the first two enums are assumed for the table
+ALSO: The specific values of the first two enums are assumed for the table
called catposstab in pcre_compile.c. */

/* These are the general character categories. */