From ThomasIlsche at gmx.de  Sun Apr  3 14:21:04 2005
From: ThomasIlsche at gmx.de (Thomas Ilsche)
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:21:04 +0200
Subject: [regex-coach] possessive quantifiers not supported?
Message-ID: <748631273.20050403162104@gmx.de>

Hi,

i'm new here and I relaly like regex-coach. I use it to develop
regexps that i use with php/pcre. However when it comes to regexp
containing possessive quantifiers they seem not to be supported.
I am wondering if this is a problem with the CL-PPCRE or regex-coach?

-- 
Best regards,
 Thomas                          mailto:ThomasIlsche at gmx.de



From edi at agharta.de  Sun Apr  3 21:52:30 2005
From: edi at agharta.de (Edi Weitz)
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 23:52:30 +0200
Subject: [regex-coach] possessive quantifiers not supported?
In-Reply-To: <748631273.20050403162104@gmx.de> (Thomas Ilsche's message of
	"Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:21:04 +0200")
References: <748631273.20050403162104@gmx.de>
Message-ID: <u4qenzfxd.fsf@agharta.de>

Hi!

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:21:04 +0200, Thomas Ilsche <ThomasIlsche at gmx.de> wrote:

> i'm new here and I relaly like regex-coach. I use it to develop
> regexps that i use with php/pcre. However when it comes to regexp
> containing possessive quantifiers they seem not to be supported.  I
> am wondering if this is a problem with the CL-PPCRE or regex-coach?

"Standalone" regular expressions ("atomic grouping") as in (?>x+) are
supported, possesive quantifiers as in x++ aren't because they aren't
in Perl and CL-PPCRE tries to be compatible with Perl.  As a
workaround, you can always simulate possesive quantifiers with
standalone expression, of course.

Cheers,
Edi.