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diff --git a/ext/pcre/pcrelib/NEWS b/ext/pcre/pcrelib/NEWS index 27866b68a2..e620b2d727 100644 --- a/ext/pcre/pcrelib/NEWS +++ b/ext/pcre/pcrelib/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,44 @@ News about PCRE releases ------------------------ +Release 4.0 17-Feb-03 +--------------------- + +There have been a lot of changes for the 4.0 release, adding additional +functionality and mending bugs. Below is a list of the highlights of the new +functionality. For full details of these features, please consult the +documentation. For a complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog file. + +1. Support for Perl's \Q...\E escapes. + +2. "Possessive quantifiers" ?+, *+, ++, and {,}+ which come from Sun's Java +package. They provide some syntactic sugar for simple cases of "atomic +grouping". + +3. Support for the \G assertion. It is true when the current matching position +is at the start point of the match. + +4. A new feature that provides some of the functionality that Perl provides +with (?{...}). The facility is termed a "callout". The way it is done in PCRE +is for the caller to provide an optional function, by setting pcre_callout to +its entry point. To get the function called, the regex must include (?C) at +appropriate points. + +5. Support for recursive calls to individual subpatterns. This makes it really +easy to get totally confused. + +6. Support for named subpatterns. The Python syntax (?P<name>...) is used to +name a group. + +7. Several extensions to UTF-8 support; it is now fairly complete. There is an +option for pcregrep to make it operate in UTF-8 mode. + +8. The single man page has been split into a number of separate man pages. +These also give rise to individual HTML pages which are put in a separate +directory. There is an index.html page that lists them all. Some hyperlinking +between the pages has been installed. + + Release 3.5 15-Aug-01 --------------------- |