Philip Hazel wrote: > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You are on the CC list for the bug. > > http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=812 > > --- Comment #1 from Philip Hazel <[email protected]> 2009-02-22 19:57:51 > --- > Although you say "other regular expressions do this", in fact, Perl does not > (I > checked with Perl 5.008008). PCRE is "Perl-compatible"; it tries to do what > Perl does. Therefore, I do not think this is a bug. The Perl/PCRE behaviour > seems fine to me, in any case. \1 matches "what group 1 matched", but if group > 1 was never used, it didn't match anything - which is not (IMHO) the same > thing > as matching an empty string. > > > I thought this was why you implemented the javascript option.
Regards, Sheri -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
