--- code/trunk/ChangeLog 2010/10/13 10:15:41 552 +++ code/trunk/ChangeLog 2010/10/22 15:57:50 553 @@ -21,6 +21,24 @@ the class, even if it had been included by some previous item, for example in [\x00-\xff\s]. (This was a bug related to the fact that VT is not part of \s, but is part of the POSIX "space" class.) + +4. A partial match never returns an empty string (because you can always + match an empty string at the end of the subject); however the checking for + an empty string was starting at the "start of match" point. This has been + changed to the "earliest inspected character" point, because the returned + data for a partial match starts at this character. This means that, for + example, /(?<=abc)def/ gives a partial match for the subject "abc" + (previously it gave "no match"). + +5. Changes have been made to the way PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD affects the matching + of $, \z, \Z, \b, and \B. If the match point is at the end of the string, + previously a full match would be given. However, setting PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD + has an implication that the given string is incomplete (because a partial + match is preferred over a full match). For this reason, these items now + give a partial match in this situation. [Aside: previously, the one case + /t\b/ matched against "cat" with PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD set did return a partial + match rather than a full match, which was wrong by the old rules, but is + now correct.] Version 8.10 25-Jun-2010