--- code/trunk/pcre.3 2007/02/24 21:38:01 3 +++ code/trunk/pcre.3 2007/02/24 21:38:05 5 @@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ normally causes the repeated item to be re-evaluated to see if a different number of repeats allows the rest of the pattern to match. Sometimes it is useful to prevent this, either to change the nature of the match, or to cause -it fail earlier than it otherwise might when the author or the pattern knows +it fail earlier than it otherwise might when the author of the pattern knows there is no point in carrying on. Consider, for example, the pattern \\d+foo when applied to the subject line