Hi, regex uses POSIX regex. pcre uses Perl-like regex, which are more powerful, but non-standard, I think. PCRE might be slower though.
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2007/4/26, IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.at:
Alexandre Quessy wrote:
Hi,
I join an old draft patch using my draft [pcre] external. Stands for "perl-compatible regular expressions" which are must robust. It can be found in cvs :: externals/aalex/pcre.c
just out of curiosity: how do these differ from the regular expressions handled by zexy's [regex]?
mfg,sdr IOhannes