On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Tib wrote:

> When (another)? didn't match, I would assume \1 also match an empty string,
> however (\1?) part captured "hello world ", is this a bug or I
> misunderstand the syntax?

I have just tested this with pcretest, and I can confirm that it is a 
bug, especially as Perl behaves like 8.10. We are rather busy with the 
16-bit upgrade at the moment, but I'll try to find time soon to see if 
there is a simple fix for this.

Philip

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