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Abel Braaksma <abel.braaksma@xs4all.nl> changed:
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--- Comment #8 from Abel Braaksma <abel.braaksma@xs4all.nl> ---
> The problem with making \11 illegal in the scenario mentioned is that you
> can't express \1 followed by the literal "1".
Actually, you can: "(?:\1)1" does exactly that and is the recommended way
explained in "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Friedl, to remove the
ambiguity.
PS: this is no intend to reopen the bug, I just stumbled upon this while
working on test case fn-matches-38, which was written in reference to this bug.
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