--- In [email protected], "brucexs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Maybe you should consolidate a list of all the good reasons to write > > pcre plugin. ;-) > > > > If you want, I could do a thin wrapper plugin for > pcre which just gives a PowerPro version of most of its > services. > > I have only a very rudimentary knowledge of REs, but if > I understand the PCRE docs correctly, pcre only > supports single match and does not support substitution > at all (you get back a vector of start end positions > which you then would need to manipuate with > replacestring). A thin wrapper means the plugin would > have the same limitations: ie no global operations and > no replace.
That would be better than nothing, but would it be possible to include pcrecpp functions as well? It is the Google-contributed C++ wrapper and seems to have all the match and replace operations (full, partial, global, etc.) Regards, Sheri
