May I know which platform you are referring to?

On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 at 1:28 AM John Baker <bakerj...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry for the duplication. I wasn't sure the message to the beta forum
> went.
>
> There are some changes in how regex'es work in the last J9.04 beta
> that will probably zing many.
>
> John Baker
>
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> From: John Baker <bakerj...@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 10:08 AM
> Subject: A big beautiful beta regex bomb
> To: Beta forum <b...@jsoftware.com>
>
>
> I have been running the latest beta: Beta-j: commercial/2023-01-07T02:25:25
> and have discovered some issues.
>
> FIRST:  changes in regex processing.
>
> In j 9.03 the following works:
>
>       JNAME=: '[[:alpha:]][[:alnum:]_]*'
>
>       JNAME rxall 'anyjname'
>
> +--------+
>
> |anyjname|
>
> +--------+
>
> In the latest 904 beta we get:
>
>    JNAME rxall 'anyjname'
>
> |this version of PCRE2 does not have Unicode support at offset 0
>
> [[:alpha:]][[:alnum:]_]*
>
> ^
>
> : regerror
>
> | m 13!:8[12
>
> I presume there is a new PRCE2 dll that must be distributed. If not,
> this is a major change in how regex's work.
>
> --
> John D. Baker
> bakerj...@gmail.com
>
>
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