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Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. |
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This page is part of the PCRE HTML documentation. It was generated automatically |
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from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, please consult the |
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man page, in case the conversion went wrong. |
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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PCRE AND PERL |
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This document describes the differences in the ways that PCRE and Perl handle |
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regular expressions. The differences described here are mainly with respect to |
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Perl 5.8, though PCRE versions 7.0 and later contain some features that are |
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expected to be in the forthcoming Perl 5.10. |
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1. PCRE has only a subset of Perl's UTF-8 and Unicode support. Details of what |
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it does have are given in the |
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<a href="pcre.html#utf8support">section on UTF-8 support</a> |
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in the main |
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<a href="pcre.html"><b>pcre</b></a> |
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page. |
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2. PCRE does not allow repeat quantifiers on lookahead assertions. Perl permits |
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them, but they do not mean what you might think. For example, (?!a){3} does
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not assert that the next three characters are not "a". It just asserts that the |
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next character is not "a" three times. |
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3. Capturing subpatterns that occur inside negative lookahead assertions are |
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counted, but their entries in the offsets vector are never set. Perl sets its |
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numerical variables from any such patterns that are matched before the |
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assertion fails to match something (thereby succeeding), but only if the |
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negative lookahead assertion contains just one branch. |
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4. Though binary zero characters are supported in the subject string, they are |
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not allowed in a pattern string because it is passed as a normal C string, |
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terminated by zero. The escape sequence \0 can be used in the pattern to |
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represent a binary zero. |
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5. The following Perl escape sequences are not supported: \l, \u, \L, |
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\U, and \N. In fact these are implemented by Perl's general string-handling |
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and are not part of its pattern matching engine. If any of these are |
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encountered by PCRE, an error is generated. |
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6. The Perl escape sequences \p, \P, and \X are supported only if PCRE is |
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built with Unicode character property support. The properties that can be |
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tested with \p and \P are limited to the general category properties such as |
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Lu and Nd, script names such as Greek or Han, and the derived properties Any |
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and L&. |
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7. PCRE does support the \Q...\E escape for quoting substrings. Characters in |
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between are treated as literals. This is slightly different from Perl in that $ |
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and @ are also handled as literals inside the quotes. In Perl, they cause |
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variable interpolation (but of course PCRE does not have variables). Note the |
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following examples: |
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Pattern PCRE matches Perl matches |
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\Qabc$xyz\E abc$xyz abc followed by the contents of $xyz |
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\Qabc\$xyz\E abc\$xyz abc\$xyz |
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\Qabc\E\$\Qxyz\E abc$xyz abc$xyz |
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The \Q...\E sequence is recognized both inside and outside character classes. |
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8. Fairly obviously, PCRE does not support the (?{code}) and (??{code})
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constructions. However, there is support for recursive patterns. This is not |
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available in Perl 5.8, but will be in Perl 5.10. Also, the PCRE "callout" |
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feature allows an external function to be called during pattern matching. See |
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<a href="pcrecallout.html"><b>pcrecallout</b></a> |
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documentation for details. |
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9. Subpatterns that are called recursively or as "subroutines" are always |
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treated as atomic groups in PCRE. This is like Python, but unlike Perl. |
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10. There are some differences that are concerned with the settings of captured |
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strings when part of a pattern is repeated. For example, matching "aba" against |
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the pattern /^(a(b)?)+$/ in Perl leaves $2 unset, but in PCRE it is set to "b". |
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11. PCRE does support Perl 5.10's backtracking verbs (*ACCEPT), (*FAIL), (*F), |
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(*COMMIT), (*PRUNE), (*SKIP), and (*THEN), but only in the forms without an |
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argument. PCRE does not support (*MARK). If (*ACCEPT) is within capturing |
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12. PCRE provides some extensions to the Perl regular expression facilities. |
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Perl 5.10 will include new features that are not in earlier versions, some of |
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which (such as named parentheses) have been in PCRE for some time. This list is |
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with respect to Perl 5.10: |
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question mark they are. |
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(f) The PCRE_NOTBOL, PCRE_NOTEOL, PCRE_NOTEMPTY, and PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE |
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different hosts that have the other endianness. |
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a pattern that set overall options that cannot be changed within the pattern. |
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University Computing Service |
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Cambridge CB2 3QH, England. |
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REVISION |
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Copyright © 1997-2007 University of Cambridge. |
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Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. |
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