AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine + docWiki

[Mark Wieder]

Marielle-

Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 4:05:38 AM, you wrote:

> Sure, there is this mention at the very bottom of the matchtext
> function. "Changes to Transcript: The regular expression format  
> changed in version 2.0 to use PCRE compatible syntax". But when I  
> tried the PCRE syntax in version 2.1, they were not working properly.
> I read that in version 2.5 or 2.6 regular expressions had been  
> improved but there is no mention of PCRE in the "regular expression
> syntax" popup and examples haven't changed.

> So how was I supposed to know that this has been fixed?

Fixed? I think the best way to explain regular expressions in runrev
is that it supports a sparsely-documented subset of PCRE compatible
syntax and that subset can change at any time.

BZ #428, 2805, 3198

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-Mark Wieder
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