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@@ -169,18 +169,20 @@ library. You can read more about them in the pcrebuild man page. supported. . You can build PCRE to recognize either CR or LF or the sequence CRLF or any - of the Unicode newline sequences as indicating the end of a line. Whatever - you specify at build time is the default; the caller of PCRE can change the - selection at run time. The default newline indicator is a single LF character - (the Unix standard). You can specify the default newline indicator by adding - --newline-is-cr or --newline-is-lf or --newline-is-crlf or --newline-is-any - to the "configure" command, respectively. - - If you specify --newline-is-cr or --newline-is-crlf, some of the standard - tests will fail, because the lines in the test files end with LF. Even if - the files are edited to change the line endings, there are likely to be some - failures. With --newline-is-any, many tests should succeed, but there may be - some failures. + of the preceding, or any of the Unicode newline sequences as indicating the + end of a line. Whatever you specify at build time is the default; the caller + of PCRE can change the selection at run time. The default newline indicator + is a single LF character (the Unix standard). You can specify the default + newline indicator by adding --enable-newline-is-cr or --enable-newline-is-lf + or --enable-newline-is-crlf or --enable-newline-is-anycrlf or + --enable-newline-is-any to the "configure" command, respectively. + + If you specify --enable-newline-is-cr or --enable-newline-is-crlf, some of + the standard tests will fail, because the lines in the test files end with + LF. Even if the files are edited to change the line endings, there are likely + to be some failures. With --enable-newline-is-anycrlf or + --enable-newline-is-any, many tests should succeed, but there may be some + failures. . When called via the POSIX interface, PCRE uses malloc() to get additional storage for processing capturing parentheses if there are more than 10 of @@ -709,4 +711,4 @@ The distribution should contain the following files: Philip Hazel Email local part: ph10 Email domain: cam.ac.uk -Last updated: 29 March 2007 +Last updated: 16 April 2007 |