Author: ph10 Date: To: Ralf Junker CC: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] Updates to substring handling
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014, Ralf Junker wrote:
> Philip, my apologies for the delay, I was caught up with other things.
Not a problem. I understand that people have Real Lives. :-)
> Unfortunately, I discovered a problem with the new
> pcre2_substring_length_by_number(): It no longer works if pcre2_match()
> returned PCRE2_PARTIAL.
I don't think I'd ever thought about extracting substrings after a
partial match - assuming that people would want to proceed to getting a
full match before doing that. I'll take a look.
> I also noticed that the pcre2_substring_length_bynumber.3 file does not
> reflect that *sizeptr may be NULL and the new return values.
