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6: <h1>pcrelimits man page</h1>
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16: SIZE AND OTHER LIMITATIONS
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19: There are some size limitations in PCRE but it is hoped that they will never in
20: practice be relevant.
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1.1.1.2 misho 23: The maximum length of a compiled pattern is approximately 64K data units (bytes
24: for the 8-bit library, 16-bit units for the 16-bit library) if PCRE is compiled
25: with the default internal linkage size of 2 bytes. If you want to process
1.1 misho 26: regular expressions that are truly enormous, you can compile PCRE with an
1.1.1.2 misho 27: internal linkage size of 3 or 4 (when building the 16-bit library, 3 is rounded
28: up to 4). See the <b>README</b> file in the source distribution and the
1.1 misho 29: <a href="pcrebuild.html"><b>pcrebuild</b></a>
1.1.1.2 misho 30: documentation for details. In these cases the limit is substantially larger.
1.1 misho 31: However, the speed of execution is slower.
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34: All values in repeating quantifiers must be less than 65536.
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37: There is no limit to the number of parenthesized subpatterns, but there can be
38: no more than 65535 capturing subpatterns.
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41: There is a limit to the number of forward references to subsequent subpatterns
42: of around 200,000. Repeated forward references with fixed upper limits, for
43: example, (?2){0,100} when subpattern number 2 is to the right, are included in
44: the count. There is no limit to the number of backward references.
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47: The maximum length of name for a named subpattern is 32 characters, and the
48: maximum number of named subpatterns is 10000.
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1.1.1.3 ! misho 51: The maximum length of a name in a (*MARK), (*PRUNE), (*SKIP), or (*THEN) verb
! 52: is 255 for the 8-bit library and 65535 for the 16-bit library.
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1.1 misho 55: The maximum length of a subject string is the largest positive number that an
56: integer variable can hold. However, when using the traditional matching
57: function, PCRE uses recursion to handle subpatterns and indefinite repetition.
58: This means that the available stack space may limit the size of a subject
59: string that can be processed by certain patterns. For a discussion of stack
60: issues, see the
61: <a href="pcrestack.html"><b>pcrestack</b></a>
62: documentation.
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64: <br><b>
65: AUTHOR
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67: <P>
68: Philip Hazel
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70: University Computing Service
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72: Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
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76: REVISION
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1.1.1.3 ! misho 79: Last updated: 04 May 2012
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1.1.1.2 misho 81: Copyright © 1997-2012 University of Cambridge.
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