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<HR><H2>Re: [COLD] regular expressions</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fri Mar 22 19:03:59 1996
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From: silovic@srce.hr (Miroslav Silovic)
To: coldstuff@cold.org
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 00:35:29 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: &lt;Pine.BSF.3.91.960322124011.4983A-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com&gt; from "Brandon Gillespie" at Mar 22, 96 12:58:31 pm

&gt; 
&gt; Since there is a POSIX standard for regular expressions, should we hook into
&gt; the system regular expressions if they exist, resorting to our own regexp 
&gt; code if it does not?
&gt; 
&gt; The problems which could arise with this is that the current POSIX 
&gt; standard seems to be somewhat vague, leaving openings for interpretation 
&gt; by implementors.  Basically, certain aspects of regular expressions could 
&gt; change depending on what OS the driver is running under.
&gt; 

I think we should use Perl regexp (if you feel like isolating its
source). At least I can tell which characters need to be backslashed and
when in Perl regexp. :) It's also somewhat standard and powerful
enough.

	Miro

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