On 2012-01-22 20:04, Philip Hazel wrote:

- PCRE must say (may be at compile time) to main application that
pattern
>  contains lookbehind
If PCRE remembers lookbehinds, then a PCRE_INFO option could do that. I presume you want this so that the application can expect zero-length partial matches.


No. If PCRE can not calculate the length of the longest lookbehind in pattern then main application must know that string returned for a partial match may be not long enough and may be more symbols needed to keep.

If PCRE can calculate the length of the longest lookbehind in pattern then it can simply returns it. Value 0 means that no lookbehinds present in pattern.

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