pcre, bifs, drivers and ports

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

Bjorn Gustavsson <bjorn@REDACTED> wrote:
	Also, a FA can be difficult/impossible to use if you need to
	know exactly what part of the string matched, for instance if
	you need to replace the matched string with something else.
	
There's a Master's thesis "Efficient Submatch Addressing for
Regular Expressions" by one Laurikari from Finland which explains
how to do exactly that (with a slightly modified form of NFA).