OpenEuphoria

Re: 4.0a3 - Two Regular Expression Libraries? -- We need your input!

• Posted by Tom Mar 17, 2009
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This could be an opportunity to create a Euphoria friendly regex library.

include std/regex.e as re 
regex r = re:new( "\\\\" ) 
object result = re:find( r, "Eup\\horia" ) 
? result 
 
   -- { 
   --    {4,4} 
   -- } 

This example shows how messy a regular expression can getsearching for just one character. The problem is that \ is an escape character in both the regex and the string you are searching. If you provide a regex-library that uses, say ~ , as an escape character then a regex should become much easier to read.

For those that like Perl, then a wrapped Perl library could be obtained from the archive.

Tom