Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:33:10 -0400 From: Shawn Halpenny <malachai@iname.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: regex(3) Message-ID: <20000605093310.A22370@cs163.humb.nt.com> In-Reply-To: <200006042110.GAA00754@daniel.sobral> References: <200006042110.GAA00754@daniel.sobral>
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On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 05:10:18PM EDT > I have been examining the regex(3) code for one of my projects, and saw > some room for improvement on it. I'd like to ask: > > 1) Does anyone have any strong feelings about me hacking it? > > 2) Can anyone point me to recent regex standards? > > Our grep (GNU grep) supports a different syntax than our library. While > that's normal for GNU add-ons, there are some stuff they *don't* > support, or support with a different syntax. It got me wondering... > > At the very least, references to grep(1) ought to be removed from > regex(3). While not entirely related, I'm considering http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/John_Maddock/regexpp.htm for a regex-heavy project I'm involved in. -- Shawn Halpenny | Maniacal@I Ache, Ohm | "Universal Danger!" +- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - \ | vi:G3kfM~lxfAPXh~l~2x2FirllpfcxlrifaprmfOX~Xp2hr.lrcelyl2p - - - - - - - -| fU~X~refsPprnlxppri2lxlpr,pFrpprrfaPlpfiprgllxp~3Xlpfndw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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