On 12/4/09, Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/4/09, Francis GALIEGUE <fge@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. That is definitely the case. -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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