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# Line 549  If this option is set, an unanchored pat Line 549  If this option is set, an unanchored pat
549  the first newline in the subject string, though the matched text may continue  the first newline in the subject string, though the matched text may continue
550  over the newline.  over the newline.
551  .sp  .sp
552      PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT
553    .sp
554    If this option is set, PCRE's behaviour is changed in some ways so that it is
555    compatible with JavaScript rather than Perl. The changes are as follows:
556    .P
557    (1) A lone closing square bracket in a pattern causes a compile-time error,
558    because this is illegal in JavaScript (by default it is treated as a data
559    character). Thus, the pattern AB]CD becomes illegal when this option is set.
560    .P
561    (2) At run time, a back reference to an unset subpattern group matches an empty
562    string (by default this causes the current matching path to fail). A pattern
563    such as (\1)(a) succeeds when this option is set (assuming it can find an "a"
564    in the subject), whereas it fails by default, for Perl compatibility.
565    .sp
566    PCRE_MULTILINE    PCRE_MULTILINE
567  .sp  .sp
568  By default, PCRE treats the subject string as consisting of a single line of  By default, PCRE treats the subject string as consisting of a single line of
# Line 717  out of use. To avoid confusion, they hav Line 731  out of use. To avoid confusion, they hav
731    54  DEFINE group contains more than one branch    54  DEFINE group contains more than one branch
732    55  repeating a DEFINE group is not allowed    55  repeating a DEFINE group is not allowed
733    56  inconsistent NEWLINE options    56  inconsistent NEWLINE options
734    57  \eg is not followed by a braced name or an optionally braced    57  \eg is not followed by a braced, angle-bracketed, or quoted
735          non-zero number          name/number or by a plain number
736    58  (?+ or (?- or (?(+ or (?(- must be followed by a non-zero number    58  a numbered reference must not be zero
737    59  (*VERB) with an argument is not supported    59  (*VERB) with an argument is not supported
738    60  (*VERB) not recognized    60  (*VERB) not recognized
739    61  number is too big    61  number is too big
740    62  subpattern name expected    62  subpattern name expected
741    63  digit expected after (?+    63  digit expected after (?+
742      64  ] is an invalid data character in JavaScript compatibility mode
743  .sp  .sp
744  The numbers 32 and 10000 in errors 48 and 49 are defaults; different values may  The numbers 32 and 10000 in errors 48 and 49 are defaults; different values may
745  be used if the limits were changed when PCRE was built.  be used if the limits were changed when PCRE was built.
# Line 1960  Cambridge CB2 3QH, England. Line 1975  Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
1975  .rs  .rs
1976  .sp  .sp
1977  .nf  .nf
1978  Last updated: 23 January 2008  Last updated: 12 April 2008
1979  Copyright (c) 1997-2008 University of Cambridge.  Copyright (c) 1997-2008 University of Cambridge.
1980  .fi  .fi
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