horter strings. This optimization
is also disabled for partial matching.
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<br><a name="SEC2" href="#TOC1">PARTIAL MATCHING USING pcre2_match()</a><br>
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A partial match occurs during a call to <b>pcre2_match()</b> when the end of the
subject string is reached successfully, but matching cannot continue because
more characters are needed. However, at least one character in the subject must
have been inspected. This character need not form part of the final matched
string; lookbehind assertions and the \