On Sun, 21 Jul 2019, ND via Pcre-dev wrote: > /(?![ab]).*/ > ab\=ph > 0: > > /c*+/ > ab\=ph,offset=2 > 0:
The characteristic of these is that the pattern can match an empty string. I have now added this condition (which was easily done with no repeated test) and those patterns now give partial matches. Philip -- Philip Hazel -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev