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From: Strake <strake888@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: regex libs (was Re: [musl] embedded newbies site.)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:13:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL3m8eCHV_oEwPwou714tS7E7W3GTdhOm-Z1pCJEAjWE07HR_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFipMOGkZSz+9w-6a528fbzE1=J4jnnqZvMQmTbkg7iQWeW5hA@mail.gmail.com>

On 16/07/2013, LM <lmemsm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would have been
> nice if they offered actual regular expressions handling if you only want
> to use the POSIX compatible part of the interface.

Why? If one only needs the POSIX compatible interface, just use POSIX libc.

> So what are some good regex library solutions?  I'm also wondering if there
> are some good cross-platform portable library solutions (or if PCRE is the
> best pattern matching solution from a portability standpoint even if it's
> not strictly regex compatible).

This is no matter of compatibility; it's in general simply NOT a
regex. Actually, neither is POSIX Basic.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-16 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-16 15:10 LM
2013-07-16 15:32 ` Rich Felker
2013-07-17  5:38   ` Isaac
2013-07-16 15:41 ` Justin Cormack
2013-07-16 16:55   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-07-16 17:13 ` Strake [this message]
2013-07-16 17:14 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-07-16 17:38   ` Szabolcs Nagy

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