> Oh, sorry, I was thinking of > (*MARK:X)(?:abc(*MOVE:X))+ > which is not an empty match. Your example is indeed an empty match.
You have already convinced me to drop MOVE :) I realized that capturing brackets with negative lengths would be awful as well. The question is whether we keep the other construct. Or "rematching" a capturing block in an assertion like fashion would solve this problem better. Regards, Zoltan -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
