On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 10:40:30 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>
>/* test regcomp with more than 9 (groups).
>   On z/OS V2R3, fails with:
>   Invalid regular expression '...' - (rc=8) \( \) or ( ) imbalance
>    ...
>Switching to BREs, doesn't help. Something probably didn't fit in 80 bytes
>:-)
Perhaps regcomp() expects regexec() to rely on a fixed-size internal
array, chosen because "sed" (e.g.) has no construct for more than 9
back-references.

>Really sucks.
>
Yup.

SR?

-- gil

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