The Regex engine inside SmaCC allows for non-greedy REs. But it's integrated as a parser first stage, not as an independent RE engine.
Regards, Thierry Le mar. 5 févr. 2019 à 08:34, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > Hi, > > Yes, Pharo regex implementation is very naive. > We will be moving to a PCRE binding to match outside world standards but we > have not had the time to work on it :( > > Esteban > > > On 5 Feb 2019, at 00:27, Manuel Leuenberger <leuenber...@inf.unibe.ch> > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I just noticed that the Pharo regexes do not understand non-greedy matches. > > A regex engine to be PCRE is kind of essential, not having '.*?' to be a > > parseable and working regex is a bummer. Are there any more powerful regex > > engines around for Pharo? I could not find any. > > > > Cheers, > > Manuel > > > > > >
