On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:55:26AM -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
>
> It's meant to be a simple fallback for languages that are too pathetic
> to implement their own regex compiler. ("FooLang should have regular
> expressions, but I'm too lazy! I'll just use rx_compile!") Currently
> I'm thinking of it as having a minimal feature set, less-than-phenomenal
> performance, and little optimization.
Frankly, I'd throw the best, most reliable freeware you can gets your
hands on into it. Occasionally I do regexp talks at work; the #1 pain
in the ass is that so many damned tools do it differently. Putting a
good one here will go a long way towards pulling everyone up to speed
consistantly.
At least until the next extension is released, anyway.
BTW, didn't Henry Spencer do a major re-release of his package a couple
of years back?
Also, the Perl-Compatible-Regular-Expression library <http://www.pcre.org/>
claims to be in use by a number of significant projects including
Python, Postfix, KDE, Analog, and PHP.
Advance apologies if I've re-walked old ground; I skim this list at best.
