On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Pcre-dev wrote: > Is VERSION documented somewhere? I can't find it mentioned in > pcresyntax. If it's for comparing PCRE version, ideally it should do > version-aware comparison (or PCRE itself should use different version > numbering scheme...)
It's not in PCRE1, only in PCRE2. Documented in pcre2syntax and pcre2pattern. It was implemented so that people whose access to PCRE2 does not allow them to run pcre2test or see pcre2.h (i.e. all they can do is feed in patterns and test strings) can find out which version of PCRE2 they are using. Philip -- Philip Hazel -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
