Hi all,
it is inconvenient for several uses cases, that study sometimes return with
something and sometimes not, and we need to manually allocate a pcre_extra.
Shall we add a flag which forces it to return with a plain, empty, pcre_extra
if it would return with NULL (and there was no error of
On Sat, 11 Aug 2012, Zoltán Herczeg wrote:
it is inconvenient for several uses cases, that study sometimes return
with something and sometimes not, and we need to manually allocate a
pcre_extra. Shall we add a flag which forces it to return with a
plain, empty, pcre_extra if it would return
What about PCRE_STUDY_EXTRA_NEEDED? My problem with NONULL that the study would
still return NULL in case of an error (rare case, means that the regex is
invalid, i.e wrong magic number). Thus, this feature could also be used for
error check.
Regards,
Zoltan
Philip Hazel p...@hermes.cam.ac.uk