OpenEuphoria

Re: Standard library progress

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at co?gar.c?m> Apr 19, 2008
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Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> 
> I think that what this is really saying is that we could use built-in regular
> expressions.
> 

Yes, I agree. I've used regular expressions many, many times and I do not
remember once when I used *just* a wildcard.

Now, implementing regular expressions is not a trivial task as everyone knows.
However, it may be a trivial task to make a cross platform wrap around pcre or
something. The Archive has a windows only wrap by Karl Bochert. That could
probably be easily modified to work on Linux/FreeBSD as well.

What do you think? Would pcre.e be a valid part of the standard library? The
difference I see is that it would bring about an additional dependency, which
doesn't sound very attractive to me but regular expressions do sound attractive
to me. PCRE is licensed as such that it could be distributed with Euphoria, but
then again, it increases the download size and makes the build process a bit more
complicated. How much? I don't really know right now.

Suggestions? Thoughts?

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Jeremy Cowgar
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