--- embedaddon/pcre/doc/pcrelimits.3 2012/02/21 23:50:25 1.1.1.2 +++ embedaddon/pcre/doc/pcrelimits.3 2012/10/09 09:19:17 1.1.1.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH PCRELIMITS 3 +.TH PCRELIMITS 3 "04 May 2012" "PCRE 8.30" .SH NAME PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions .SH "SIZE AND OTHER LIMITATIONS" @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ the count. There is no limit to the number of backward The maximum length of name for a named subpattern is 32 characters, and the maximum number of named subpatterns is 10000. .P +The maximum length of a name in a (*MARK), (*PRUNE), (*SKIP), or (*THEN) verb +is 255 for the 8-bit library and 65535 for the 16-bit library. +.P The maximum length of a subject string is the largest positive number that an integer variable can hold. However, when using the traditional matching function, PCRE uses recursion to handle subpatterns and indefinite repetition. @@ -58,6 +61,6 @@ Cambridge CB2 3QH, England. .rs .sp .nf -Last updated: 08 January 2012 +Last updated: 04 May 2012 Copyright (c) 1997-2012 University of Cambridge. .fi