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News about PCRE releases |
News about PCRE releases |
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Release 3.5 15-Aug-01 |
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1. The configuring system has been upgraded to use later versions of autoconf |
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and libtool. By default it builds both a shared and a static library if the OS |
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supports it. You can use --disable-shared or --disable-static on the configure |
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command if you want only one of them. |
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2. The pcretest utility is now installed along with pcregrep because it is |
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useful for users (to test regexs) and by doing this, it automatically gets |
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relinked by libtool. The documentation has been turned into a man page, so |
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there are now .1, .txt, and .html versions in /doc. |
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3. Upgrades to pcregrep: |
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(i) Added long-form option names like gnu grep. |
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(ii) Added --help to list all options with an explanatory phrase. |
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(iii) Added -r, --recursive to recurse into sub-directories. |
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(iv) Added -f, --file to read patterns from a file. |
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4. Added --enable-newline-is-cr and --enable-newline-is-lf to the configure |
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script, to force use of CR or LF instead of \n in the source. On non-Unix |
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systems, the value can be set in config.h. |
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5. The limit of 200 on non-capturing parentheses is a _nesting_ limit, not an |
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absolute limit. Changed the text of the error message to make this clear, and |
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likewise updated the man page. |
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6. The limit of 99 on the number of capturing subpatterns has been removed. |
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The new limit is 65535, which I hope will not be a "real" limit. |
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Release 3.3 01-Aug-00 |
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There is some support for UTF-8 character strings. This is incomplete and |
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experimental. The documentation describes what is and what is not implemented. |
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Otherwise, this is just a bug-fixing release. |
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Release 3.0 01-Feb-00 |
Release 3.0 01-Feb-00 |
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