> While recompiling Markus Mottl's fabulous pcre wrapper (many thanks
> for that, by the way), [cut]

Thanks a lot for your feedback! I would like to point out that the really
tricky part (the C-engine implementing the pattern matching) has been
written by Philip Hazel. He has accomplished a great job in doing this and
should deserve most of the credits...

Best regards,
Markus Mottl

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