From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 5 6:35:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtprich.nortel.com (smtprich.nortel.com [192.135.215.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA87137BCCA for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 06:35:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malachai@iname.com) Received: from ertpg15e1.nortelnetworks.com (actually zrtph06n) by smtprich.nortel.com; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:25:48 -0500 Received: from zrtpd004.us.nortel.com (actually zrtpd004) by ertpg15e1.nortelnetworks.com; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:33:48 -0400 Received: from nhmbd14.us.nortel.com ([47.120.192.112]) by zrtpd004.us.nortel.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id L3HQCLP8; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:33:45 -0400 Received: from cs163.humb.nt.com (nhmbn472.us.nortel.com [47.100.194.163]) by nhmbd14.us.nortel.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id L1MV6M1Y; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:33:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:33:10 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Shawn Halpenny To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: regex(3) Message-ID: <20000605093310.A22370@cs163.humb.nt.com> References: <200006042110.GAA00754@daniel.sobral> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1us In-Reply-To: <200006042110.GAA00754@daniel.sobral> X-Orig: Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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