On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, I wrote: > I tried studying the combined pattern, assuming it would find a starting > byte set of < o t and u (which is what studying does), but it didn't. > This I think is a bug in pcre_study(), which I will investigate (just in > time for the forthcoming 8.13 release). Looks like it is the initial \b > in three patterns that is foxing it, because when I remove that, it does > find the starting bytes.
Yes, it was a simple bug, for which I have committed a patch. If you study the pattern, the 8.13 release should be somewhat faster. With luck this release might be out tomorrow. Philip -- Philip Hazel -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
