From: Robert Roessler <roessler@rftp.com>
To: Caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ANNOUNCE: lablpcre-1.0 - a PCRE binding for Objective Caml
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:13:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C130A0.4060107@rftp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070131151603.GA22962@localhost>
Eric Cooper wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:42:02PM -0800, Robert Roessler wrote:
>> LablPCRE provides simple and easy to use access to regular expression
>> matching, offering a rich module-based interface based on PCRE's POSIX
>> functions wrapper.
>
> Can you (or anyone familiar with both) summarize how this binding
> compares to Markus Mottl's pcre-ocaml? Thanks.
As Markus says, it does implement the POSIX API for regular expression
matching and extraction of sub-patterns... but note that that just
[here] controls the "level" of the interface: there is a regcomp
function for compiling the patterns and a regexec call for matching a
compiled pattern against a specific string.
The full "language" of PCRE for matching and pattern specification is
accepted. Further, LablPCRE adds an even lighter-weight regmatch
function when all that is desired is a boolean answer on a match, as
well as a set of substring extraction and [error] status info accessor
functions.
LablPCRE makes an effort to be a good GC-citizen by not holding
references to anything it doesn't need to. :)
Finally, LablPCRE supports PCRE 7.0 (or any of the releases back to 6.1).
Robert Roessler
roessler@rftp.com
http://www.rftp.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-01 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-29 5:42 Robert Roessler
2007-01-31 15:16 ` [Caml-list] " Eric Cooper
2007-01-31 15:31 ` Markus Mottl
2007-02-01 0:13 ` Robert Roessler [this message]
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