Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:18:40 +0200 From: Arne Skjaerholt <arnsholt@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scripting languages... Message-ID: <1146226721.7085.12.camel@bursar> In-Reply-To: <20060427223402.GB2601@thought.org> References: <20060427024158.GA71123@thought.org> <44508D31.4020402@dial.pipex.com> <20060427223402.GB2601@thought.org>
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On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 15:34 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Somebody in the UK turned the perl regex stuff into a ch > library. IMHO, nobody can touch perl's regex ... so it > would be nice to have in the C world. There are other > perl features that would serve if they were backported, > too. .... The perl regex library for ch was probably implemented using libpcre (from www.pcre.org) which is a C implementation of perl compatible regexes. I've fiddled around a bit with it, and the API is pretty nice to work with. Arne :wq
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