Fix RT #121321 - Fencepost error causes infinite loop in regex compilation

Fix RT #121321 - Fencepost error causes infinite loop in regex compilation

Due to a fencepost error if a pattern had more than 9 capture buffers
and after the last capture buffer there was an octal style escape which
when interpreted as decimal evaluated to one more than the number of
defined buffers then the regex compiler would go into an infinite loop.

This fixes the fencepost error, adds tests, and adds some comments to
explain what is going on.