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5  Release 7.1 20-Mar-07  Release 7.2 13-Jun-07
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8  There are no new features in this release. A few bugs are fixed (see ChangeLog  WARNING: saved patterns that were compiled by earlier versions of PCRE must be
9  for details), but the major change is a complete re-implementation of the build  recompiled for use with 7.2 (necessitated by the addition of \K, \h, \H, \v,
10  system. This now has full Autotools support and so is now "standard" in some  and \V).
11  sense. It should help with compiling PCRE in a wide variety of environments.  
12    Correction to the notes for 7.1: the note about shared libraries for Windows is
13    wrong. Previously, three libraries were built, but each could function
14    independently. For example, the pcreposix library also included all the
15    functions from the basic pcre library. The change is that the three libraries
16    are no longer independent. They are like the Unix libraries. To use the
17    pcreposix functions, for example, you need to link with both the pcreposix and
18    the basic pcre library.
19    
20    Some more features from Perl 5.10 have been added:
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22      (?-n) and (?+n) relative references for recursion and subroutines.
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24      (?(-n) and (?(+n) relative references as conditions.
25    
26      \k{name} and \g{name} are synonyms for \k<name>.
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28      \K to reset the start of the matched string; for example, (foo)\Kbar
29      matches bar preceded by foo, but only sets bar as the matched string.
30    
31      (?| introduces a group where the capturing parentheses in each alternative
32      start from the same number; for example, (?|(abc)|(xyz)) sets capturing
33      parentheses number 1 in both cases.
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35      \h, \H, \v, \V match horizontal and vertical whitespace, respectively.
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37    
38    Release 7.1 24-Apr-07
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40    
41    There is only one new feature in this release: a linebreak setting of
42    PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF. It is a cut-down version of PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY, which
43    recognizes only CRLF, CR, and LF as linebreaks.
44    
45    A few bugs are fixed (see ChangeLog for details), but the major change is a
46    complete re-implementation of the build system. This now has full Autotools
47    support and so is now "standard" in some sense. It should help with compiling
48    PCRE in a wide variety of environments.
49    
50  NOTE: when building shared libraries for Windows, three dlls are now built,  NOTE: when building shared libraries for Windows, three dlls are now built,
51  called libpcre, libpcreposix, and libpcrecpp. Previously, everything was  called libpcre, libpcreposix, and libpcrecpp. Previously, everything was
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