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.

Thanks.

Philip

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Philip Hazel