Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:35:35 +0100 From: Dennis Koegel <amf@hobbit.neveragain.de> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Sergey Lyubka <valenok@gmail.com> Subject: Re: pcre in base system Message-ID: <20050218003534.GA31807@neveragain.de> In-Reply-To: <20050217185422.GJ57256@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <72c3a957050217031230598f63@mail.gmail.com> <86zmy3qmm2.wl%sf@FreeBSD.org> <72c3a957050217065223729f83@mail.gmail.com> <20050217185422.GJ57256@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:54:22AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Based on the NetBSD thread, pcre also has an area where it is not > POSIX compliant (and does not plan to become POSIX compliant) and does > not provide BREs. This may present a sticking point. Replacing the standard behaviour with PCREs definitely is a bad idea. But, well, it would actually be nice if PCREs would be available as an *option*. Analogue to grep, grep -E / sed, sed -E, ... one might have grep -P (and not confuse it with pgrep ;-), sed -P and so on. - D.
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