Re: Non capturing parenthesis in regexp causes seg fault.

[Arran Cudbard-Bell <A.Cudbard-Bell@sussex.ac.uk>]

Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
> Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
> > Alan DeKok wrote:
> > > Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
> > >  
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Got this on my 32bit intel box running Ubuntu Linux 6.10
> > > >
> > > > if("%{User-Name}" =~ /(?:.*)/){
> > > >     
> > >
> > >   I'm not sure that's a valid regular expression... '?' is usually a
> > > modifier...
> > >   
> > It is...
> >
> > It allows you to create backreferences but not capture the result 
> > directly.
> >
> > http://www.regular-expressions.info/brackets.html
> >
> > Pretty sure it's supported with the PCRE library.
But FR doesn't use the PCRE library, it uses the regular expression 
library included in libc ... POSIX.2 regular expressions.

So your right , non-capturing backreferences aren't supported.

Thanks Anyway !

Arran

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