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News about PCRE releases
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Release 3.3 01-Aug-00
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There is some support for UTF-8 character strings. This is incomplete and
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experimental. The documentation describes what is and what is not implemented.
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Otherwise, this is just a bug-fixing release.
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Release 3.0 01-Feb-00
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1. A "configure" script is now used to configure PCRE for Unix systems. It
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builds a Makefile, a config.h file, and the pcre-config script.
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2. PCRE is built as a shared library by default.
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3. There is support for POSIX classes such as [:alpha:].
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5. There is an experimental recursion feature.
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IMPORTANT FOR THOSE UPGRADING FROM VERSIONS BEFORE 2.00
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Please note that there has been a change in the API such that a larger
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ovector is required at matching time, to provide some additional workspace.
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The new man page has details. This change was necessary in order to support
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some of the new functionality in Perl 5.005.
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IMPORTANT FOR THOSE UPGRADING FROM VERSION 2.00
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Another (I hope this is the last!) change has been made to the API for the
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pcre_compile() function. An additional argument has been added to make it
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possible to pass over a pointer to character tables built in the current
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locale by pcre_maketables(). To use the default tables, this new arguement
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should be passed as NULL.
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IMPORTANT FOR THOSE UPGRADING FROM VERSION 2.05
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Yet another (and again I hope this really is the last) change has been made
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to the API for the pcre_exec() function. An additional argument has been
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added to make it possible to start the match other than at the start of the
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subject string. This is important if there are lookbehinds. The new man
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page has the details, but you just want to convert existing programs, all
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you need to do is to stick in a new fifth argument to pcre_exec(), with a
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value of zero. For example, change
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pcre_exec(pattern, extra, subject, length, options, ovec, ovecsize)
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to
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pcre_exec(pattern, extra, subject, length, 0, options, ovec, ovecsize)
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