note 93844 deleted from regexp.reference.repetition by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:06:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 93844 deleted from regexp.reference.repetition by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: Anonymous
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> When a capturing subpattern is repeated, the value captured is
> the substring that matched the final iteration.
Very, very bad. This makes the wonderful mechanism of regexps to be unable to parse complex
expressions.