On 12/4/09, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/4/09, Francis GALIEGUE <f...@one2team.com> wrote:
>
>  >  The problem I have is with the & being systematically understood by
>  >  the right size of regexes to mean "the whole thing matched by the
>  >  matching left regex". While this is a common regex idiom in "basic"
>  >  regexes (sed acts this way for instance), it is not expected at all
>  >  from pcre (Perl doesn't know about &, and from what I've read about
>  >  pcre so far, pcre doesn't know about it either). Hence my puzzle.
>
>
> I think Apache is simulating perls $&, and I think it's on purpose.
>  Seems pretty unwise.

That is definitely the case.
-- 
Eric Covener
cove...@gmail.com

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