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-- Allow NULL for $matches argument (helps when using preg_match only for
- match condition) - might not be possible
-
-- http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36975
-
-- I'd love to see a pattern modifer which says "don't fill $matches except
- for the overall match and any specific named captures". This would allow
- (?: ...) to be avoided in a lot of cases.
-
- This could make for non-trivial speed enhancements with regexes that have
- a lot of parens when working on long strings, since you'd not have to
- copy them multiple times to the $matches array.
-
- Also, it makes $matches much cleaner after a match where you've named the
- captures you're interested in.
-
- (Note that this would not involve the use of PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE, as
- that would change the semantics of backreferences)
-
-