Geo Carncross wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 10:51 +0200, Paul J Stevens wrote:
>>No. It is pretty much required for getting at the base-subject as >>required for SORT and THREAD (draft-ietf-imapext-sort-17). > > > No it's not. I [have] used: > > http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html > > to implement threading (same as in imapext-sort) without using regex at > all. Thanks for the URL. Nice reading. Jamie rulez. Still, anything can be done without regex. And parsing base-subjects is no rocket science. But I like regex :-) and wanted to try my hand at using them in c-code. >>>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 :-) > > > If this is the only place we've got regex, then I'll be happy to rewrite > it. Currently the *only* place that uses (posix) regex is the namespace code in imap. I just finished a working implementation of base-subject retrieval using pcre, but that's not in svn yet. -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] NET FACILITIES GROUP PGP: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl
