From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2000-12-15T14:57:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7285] Re: Regexp (was Re: Ruby in the US)


 [[ I've modified the subject ]]

>>>>> "A" == A M Kuchling <amk@mira.erols.com> writes:

A> PCRE might be worth contemplating as a BSD-licensed regular expression
A> library, since it provides Perl-compatibility and is fairly readable.
A> The pcre_compile() function is pretty hairy, though, but I'm sure
A> PCRE's author would accept improvements; he was quite friendly when I
A> was adapting PCRE to Python.

 Two questions about pcre :

 * how do it compare to GNU regexp in term of rapidity ?
 * Is it easy to modify it to add support for japanese encoding ?


Guy Decoux