On 19 May 2011, at 1:06 PM, Yehezkel Horowitz wrote:
Can anyone explain why ap_regexec can take only NULL terminated
string?
I’m working in filter context and want to run regular expression on
bucket content (so I have the buffer length).
Currently I had to copy the bucket content and add the NULL at the
end before passing it to ap_regexec (this is a waste of CPU and
memory).
The underling PCRE engine support getting the length of the input
string (actually ap_regexec just run strlen on the string and pass
the result to pcre_exec)
Can you consider adding API for this? (Of course it will get the
input length as argument)
Similar request (from 2002) could be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg12986.html
but without any reply.
Sounds like a sensible thing to have.
Is there a patch for this anywhere that we can take a look at, or is
this just a suggestion at this point?
Regards,
Graham
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