From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 28 09:00:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C1916A401 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:00:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arnsholt@broadpark.no) Received: from mail48.e.nsc.no (mail48.e.nsc.no [193.213.115.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 326DB43D49 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:00:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arnsholt@broadpark.no) Received: from bursar.lan (ti211310a080-16232.bb.online.no [85.166.63.104]) by mail48.nsc.no (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k3S902Qs029473 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:00:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Arne Skjaerholt To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060427223402.GB2601@thought.org> References: <20060427024158.GA71123@thought.org> <44508D31.4020402@dial.pipex.com> <20060427223402.GB2601@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:18:40 +0200 Message-Id: <1146226721.7085.12.camel@bursar> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: scripting languages... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: arnsholt@broadpark.no List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:00:46 -0000 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