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Re: [TSVN] issuetrackers and regex

From: Toby Johnson <toby_at_etjohnson.us>
Date: 2005-02-12 00:25:22 CET

SteveKing wrote:

> Always check if the lib supports lookahead/lookbehind! There are a lot
> of libs out there which only support a small part of the whole regex
> specs from perl. Even Scintilla has a regex class in it, but that one
> is very limited.

I don't get why lookahead/lookbehind is so important. Couldn't the user
simply be given the ability to specify which backreference to use as the
bugtraq id? Is there some other aspect of lookaheads other than the
ability to avoid using a backreference?

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