Re: [pcre-dev] (SKIP:NAME) when (MARK:NAME) is in assertion

On 2018-07-13 16:08, ph10 wrote:

When SKIP has a name, it backtracks until it hits a MARK with the samename.


Why it need to backtrack?

Why not do a "bumpalong" advance to the next starting character straitaway?

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Re: [pcre-dev] (*SKIP:NAME) when (*MARK:NAME) is in assertion