Re: [pcre-dev] No capture in nested negative assertions

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Author: ND
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To: Pcre-dev
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] No capture in nested negative assertions
On 2018-07-09 09:25, ph10 wrote:
>If any branch in a negative assertion succeeds, the captures are
> (temporarily) kept, but as the whole assertion now fails, there is an
> external backtrack, which discards the captures.
>


To what point backtracking is?
I guess Perl doesn't backtrack if last alternative of negative assertion
fails.