On Sat, 14 Jul 2018, ND via Pcre-dev wrote: > On 2018-07-13 16:08, ph10 wrote: > >When SKIP has a name, it backtracks until it hits a MARK with the samename. > > > > Why it need to backtrack? > Why not do a "bumpalong" advance to the next starting character strait away?
It has to backtrack to the *MARK because that is where the bumpalong data is remembered. There may be many *MARKs, each with a different name. You can't just keep a single data item. Philip -- Philip Hazel -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
