From: John Maddock (John_Maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-03 07:40:07
>If I have an input string that I want to match with an expression, and
that
>string is not complete, but does match up to the end of the string, is
there
>any way that I can distinguish the expression match failing because it
>reached the end of the input string from it failing because the pattern
did
>not match ?
<
No, I don't off hand really see how to do this. (don't use partial
strings?)
If this is a big issue, then maybe there are workarounds that could be
added to the source, but this would not normally be the behaviour that most
people would expect.
- John.