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Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 12:08:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: PCRE partial matching
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:31 AM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi internals,
>
> PCRE has some very nice partial matching functionality described at
> https://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2partial.html. This is useful
> for streaming processing, as it allows you to distinguish between "there's
> definitely no match here" and "this could match starting from position N,
> but we need more data to find out".
>
> Here is a PR to expose this functionality from PHP:
> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/3969 The PR has a basic description
> of the API.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Nikita
>

Any more comments on this one?

Nikita

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