On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:44:51 +0100, Charlie Turner (ceejay) wrote:
A>> The book is "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl
A>> (O'Reilly). It costs US $34.95 and is turning out to be worth
A>> twice the price.
CTc> My use of regexp has thus far been limited to that used in Gravity. I
CTc> believe format does vary depending on the platform being used. Are the
CTc> contents of the book relevant to TB's form of regexp, or is it more of
CTc> a Perl programers book?
While i don't know this book, i can assure you that TB! regexps are
very close to Perl regexps. The regexp implementation is not from Stef
or Max themselves, but is the third party library PCRE. And PCRE means
Perl Compatible RegExps... The few differences to Perl are documented
in the help file. Unfortunately, with PCRE only matching is possible,
while Perl has the very powerful subsitute operator working with
regexps.
Regards
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Peter Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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