On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, ND wrote: > The first-encountered partial offset is not always equal to last bumpalong > offset. > In case of using '\K' the first-encountered partial offset is not useful, > but last bumpalong offset is.
Indeed, and it is not only \K. If the pattern starts with a lookbehind assertion, or \b or \B, you need characters *before* the last bumpalong offset. I took a look at the code, and it turned out to be surprisingly easy to fix this. I have committed code that yields the first inspected character that was used in the partial match. If your pattern is /(<=foo)bar/ and your string is "abcfooba" the partial match yields "fooba". The same with /foo\Kbar/. I hope this is what you want! Philip -- Philip Hazel -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
