Hi,
the current backtracking behaviour of PCRE for atomic blocks is not exactly
logical to me, so I tried to compare it with PERL (v5.12.1). I don't know PERL
(yet), this is actually my first PERL script:
my $str = "aaaabaaabaabab";
@myarray = ($str =~ m/((?>(a+)b)+aabab)/);
print join(",", @myarray), "\n";
Its result is: aaaabaaabaabab,aaa
I don't know how to extract the starting/ending positions, that is why I choose
this tricky example, since I can see that the result of the internal capturing
bracket is the second block. Even I don' understand why the array does not
contain the full match...
With PCRE, the result is the following: 0, 14, 0, 14, 12, 13 - the internal
capturing bracket holds the last 'a'. Am I interpret right that this is a
different behaviour?
Regards,
Zoltan
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