Hi, On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 21:42, Vicente Ferrari via Pcre-dev <pcre-dev@exim.org> wrote: > > Hello, sorry to bother with a basic question. > > I'm wondering about the expected result when matching ".*" against a string > with new lines. > I compiled PCRE2 with the ANYCRLF option, expecting that the pcre2demo.c > program would > basically completely ignore those newlines. Instead, I get matches of > length 0 at the index of the > \r, no matches where \n is and then the next correct match starts at the > correct offset, taking into account the length 2 of the newlines. > > I was expecting newlines to produce no matches at all, am I doing something > wrong?
It's hard to say without any testdata; could you please share some examples of the patterns that you're using, and the corresponding subject strings that seem to match at unexpected places? HTH, -- Giuseppe D'Angelo -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
