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@@ -183,6 +183,12 @@ library. You can read more about them in the pcrebuild man page.
to be some failures. With --enable-newline-is-anycrlf or
--enable-newline-is-any, many tests should succeed, but there may be some
failures.
+
+. By default, the sequence \R in a pattern matches any Unicode line ending
+ sequence. This is independent of the option specifying what PCRE considers to
+ be the end of a line (see above). However, the caller of PCRE can restrict \R
+ to match only CR, LF, or CRLF. You can make this the default by adding
+ --enable-bsr-anycrlf to the "configure" command (bsr = "backslash R").
. When called via the POSIX interface, PCRE uses malloc() to get additional
storage for processing capturing parentheses if there are more than 10 of
@@ -714,4 +720,4 @@ The distribution should contain the following files:
Philip Hazel
Email local part: ph10
Email domain: cam.ac.uk
-Last updated: 24 April 2007
+Last updated: 17 September 2007