[pcre-dev] [Bug 1694] Backward search

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Subject: [pcre-dev] [Bug 1694] Backward search
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1694

Zoltan Herczeg <hzmester@???> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Zoltan Herczeg <hzmester@???> ---
The nature of perl regex is kind of a forward-only search. Defining the effect
of control verbs like (*SKIP) would be difficult for backward searching. The
only thing I could imagine is moving backward in the input (but the pattern
matched forward), but (*SKIP) could create infinite loops in that case.

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