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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Anand Akhare <anan.akhare@gmail.com>
Cc: libc-help@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: regexec pattern matching
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87va49tk98.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACWLfGL2SCtVixe3xzrU=6DyCJGSf3X46Xa5dHeAvx8AOcSDxQ@mail.gmail.com>	(Anand Akhare's message of "Fri, 2 Nov 2018 14:29:00 +0530")

* Anand Akhare:

> Hello,
>      regexec matching pattern against buffer throughout complete length
> and skips for those that doesn't match until match is found.
> Is it possible to get match for first character and if match fails, it
> returns fail rather than going forward to next characters.
> In summary, only start of buffer should b considered for match.

I think glibc's non-POSIX matching interfaces (re_search etc.) support
this via the range argument, but I have not tired this.

Thanks,
Florian

      reply	other threads:[~2018-12-04 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-02  8:59 Anand Akhare
2018-12-04 14:54 ` Florian Weimer [this message]

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