Re: Regular Expressions
- Posted by "Carl R. White" <C.R.White at SCM.BRAD.AC.UK> Sep 07, 1998
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On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Mathew Hounsell wrote: > Has anyone written anything to help compare a string to a regular expression? I like regexps too. I even have a Unix book with a full list of how to use them. Ralf's suggestion of using Wildcard.e may be a fairly good start though... I'd start work right now, but there's a snag. My net access gets cut off (extremely likely anyway) from around the 22nd, so I wouldn't be able to get a finished product to you... :( If you want a command line tool (for DOS) that parses text files for regexps, try looking for sed15x.zip or netsearching for SED. (Stream EDitor). Also, LEX (or more likely FLEX) and YACC (o.m.l. BISON) are out there somewhere, for simpler DOS systems, and of course, there's the infamous DJGPP (*choke*, huge!) package... -- Carl R White E-mail...: cyrek- at -bigfoot.com -- Remove the hyphens before mailing. Ta :) Url......: http://www.bigfoot.com/~cyrek/ In my last few days on the net, I have room for a witty quote. Irony. :S