OpenEuphoria

Re: Standard library progress

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agri?ulture.g?uv.fr> Apr 20, 2008
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> --
> Jeremy Cowgar
> <a href="http://jeremy.cowgar.com">http://jeremy.cowgar.com</a>

<plug>
Add EuRegExp from the archive to the standard distro.
</plug>

CChris