https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2232
Bug ID: 2232 Summary: Whitespace after subpattern definition seems to disable backtracking Product: PCRE Version: 10.30 (PCRE2) Hardware: x86 OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: bug Priority: medium Component: Code Assignee: p...@hermes.cam.ac.uk Reporter: david.lanzenber...@ergon.ch CC: pcre-dev@exim.org Consider the following pattern: (?(DEFINE)(?<optional_a>a?))^(?&optional_a)a$ As expected (with the new PCRE2 10.30 subpattern backtracking), it matches the subject strings "a" and "aa". However, if we insert a new line after the definition of optional_a, the pattern matches only the string "aa": (?(DEFINE)(?<optional_a>a?) )^(?&optional_a)a$ As a workaround, one can use (?x) as follows: (?(DEFINE)(?x)(?<optional_a>a?) )^(?&optional_a)a$ -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev