Re: Feature Request for pcre_match*()

Hello, can you please post a unified diff (diff -u)? That's much more readable. regards, Derick On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, 'Ricky' S Dhatt wrote: > Hi - > > I'd like to ask that the pcre_match*() functions be modified such that > they can also return position info on where the match(s) occured, akin to > Perl's pos(). I think this would be a very useful addition, plus it > requires minimal code changes since the actual function, php_pcre_match() > computes the values presently but just throws them away. > > I've modified my own build to do this, and I've attached a diff...but I'd > regard this as proof-of-concept code since I did it in a hurry (so maybe > it can make 4.2.0?) and I haven't coded in C since my university classes > couple years back. It's actually kinda of embarassing, but heck I don't > know any of you. =P. > > The only really difficulty would be deciding how to return the > values...I've thought up a bunch of ways of implementing this > other than the stupidly simple add another nested array I did, like use a > resource, a new function, return a 2nd array, etc. > > > --Ricky >