https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2245
Philip Hazel <ph10@???> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution|--- |INVALID
--- Comment #2 from Philip Hazel <ph10@???> ---
Perhaps the poster is thinking about pcre2grep rather than the PCRE library?
It would be relatively straightforward to add a new option to pcre2grep
(called, say, --first-line) which would require any match to begin in the first
line of the file (multi-line searching could continue onto other lines). This
would make it easy to do things like finding files that start with matching
text. However, it would be more difficult to do something similar at the end of
files because, when multi-line matching is enabled, you wouldn't know how far
back to start the search. I suppose one could just do all the normal searches
and ignore any that do not end within the last line, but that seems
ridiculously expensive.
I'm going to close this bug as INVALID, however, because, as Zoltan says,
there's no concept of "file" in the PCRE regex matching engine.
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