On 4/27/05, Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Aaron Stone wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005, Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > >>Hi guys, > >> > >>I'm exploring the usage of regexp?|pcre calls in dbmail. I'm working on > >>the fast threading code, but it'll come in handy in many other areas I > >>suspect. > > > > > > I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the regex library. For parsing > > certain headers? This makes sense for some of the more convoluted headers. > > No. It is pretty much required for getting at the base-subject as > required for SORT and THREAD (draft-ietf-imapext-sort-17). > > > I'd say that PCRE is the way to go. > > I spent all day yesterday trying to build a rather complicated pattern > with regex. No good. With pcre, it's a breeze ... once you get the hang > of the api :-) > > I just wrote a little ditty called dm_pcre_split (heh, like php). Stuff > like that will be very useful in the imap command parser, without having > to resort to a full fledged lex/yacc parser.
So, pcre makes a lot of things a lot easier for DBMail development. A lot easier than POSIX regex, and a lot easier than implementing stuff in pure C. Well, that decision shouldn't be too hard then, should it? Ilja
