On 12/4/09, Francis GALIEGUE <[email protected]> wrote:

>  The problem I have is with the & being systematically understood by
>  the right size of regexes to mean "the whole thing matched by the
>  matching left regex". While this is a common regex idiom in "basic"
>  regexes (sed acts this way for instance), it is not expected at all
>  from pcre (Perl doesn't know about &, and from what I've read about
>  pcre so far, pcre doesn't know about it either). Hence my puzzle.

I think Apache is simulating perls $&, and I think it's on purpose.
Seems pretty unwise.

-- 
Eric Covener
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