Maybe this is already working but I'm hoping to accomplish the
following:
in perl/php/python writing a grep-like facsimile is pretty easy
HOWEVER it's always slower and more cumbersome than -the real thing-
similarly, using pipes to get to grep is always slow and introduces
synchronization problems.
what I'd like is a libgrep that exposes the internals of grep's
functions to other c programs as a library so that these could be
wrapped natively for perl/python/php so that these languages could use
a native grep function with full awesome grep functionality rather
than an external one.
I've looked at libgrep.h from gnu/gettext project and this appears to
be a kind of stubby attempt to do this - but maybe I'm wrong.
If this is "done" and libgrep from gnu/gettext IS THE PLACE and aught
to be THE PLACE to look, I'm sorry for the interruption (but could use
some advice about how to integrate it!).
If this is not done, it sure would be nifty if the grep codebase
itself came with an api doc and would build its own libgrep and
install it by default or with an optional compile parameter.
Robbie Lindauer
