[regex-coach] Regex Coach \K option fails?

[Edi Weitz]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:10 PM, mike <mike at illsoft.com> wrote:
> I checked that page but I don't see any mention of
> the \K option. Am I to assume that its not supported in your library?

Right.  Actually, until now I had never heard of the \K switch (or I
forgot about it).  CL-PPCRE is largely modeled on Perl (at a
particular point in time) and when I wrote CL-PPCRE, Perl didn't have
\K.

> Is there a similar switch?

>From a quick look at the PCRE docs I'd say that some of the \K
behavior can probably be emulated using look-behind assertions.