[regex-coach] possessive quantifiers not supported?
Edi Weitz
edi at agharta.de
Sun Apr 3 21:52:30 UTC 2005
Hi!
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:21:04 +0200, Thomas Ilsche <ThomasIlsche at gmx.de> wrote:
> i'm new here and I relaly like regex-coach. I use it to develop
> regexps that i use with php/pcre. However when it comes to regexp
> containing possessive quantifiers they seem not to be supported. I
> am wondering if this is a problem with the CL-PPCRE or regex-coach?
"Standalone" regular expressions ("atomic grouping") as in (?>x+) are
supported, possesive quantifiers as in x++ aren't because they aren't
in Perl and CL-PPCRE tries to be compatible with Perl. As a
workaround, you can always simulate possesive quantifiers with
standalone expression, of course.
Cheers,
Edi.
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