On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:04:06 -0700 Bart Smaalders wrote:
>       According to PCRE's Home Page, "The PCRE library is a set of
>       functions that implement regular expression pattern matching
>       using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. PCRE has its own
>       native API, as well as a set of wrapper functions that correspond
>       to the POSIX regular expression API." [1] [2]

"POSIX regular expression API" does not mean that the posix veneer
on top of PCRE implements posix REs

-- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --


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