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revision 7 by nigel, Sat Feb 24 21:38:09 2007 UTC revision 11 by nigel, Sat Feb 24 21:38:17 2007 UTC
# Line 8  pcre - Perl-compatible regular expressio Line 8  pcre - Perl-compatible regular expressio
8  .br  .br
9  .B pcre *pcre_compile(const char *\fIpattern\fR, int \fIoptions\fR,  .B pcre *pcre_compile(const char *\fIpattern\fR, int \fIoptions\fR,
10  .ti +5n  .ti +5n
11  .B char **\fIerrptr\fR, int *\fIerroffset\fR);  .B const char **\fIerrptr\fR, int *\fIerroffset\fR);
12  .PP  .PP
13  .br  .br
14  .B pcre_extra *pcre_study(const pcre *\fIcode\fR, int \fIoptions\fR,  .B pcre_extra *pcre_study(const pcre *\fIcode\fR, int \fIoptions\fR,
15  .ti +5n  .ti +5n
16  .B char **\fIerrptr\fR);  .B const char **\fIerrptr\fR);
17  .PP  .PP
18  .br  .br
19  .B int pcre_exec(const pcre *\fIcode\fR, "const pcre_extra *\fIextra\fR,"  .B int pcre_exec(const pcre *\fIcode\fR, "const pcre_extra *\fIextra\fR,"
# Line 603  operation from backtracking past it. For Line 603  operation from backtracking past it. For
603    
604    .*/foo    .*/foo
605    
606  is matched against the string "/foo/this/is/not" then after the greedy .*  is matched against the string "/this/string/is/not" then after the greedy .*
607  has swallowed the whole string, PCRE keeps backtracking all the way to the  has swallowed the whole string, PCRE keeps backtracking all the way to the
608  beginning before failing. If, on the other hand, the expression is  beginning before failing. If, on the other hand, the expression is
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