[GRASS5] regex routines

[Eric G. Miller]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:16:01PM +0100, David D Gray wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> One of the shortfalls in writing parsing routines I've found recently is
> that there is no native regex handling stuff in GRASS. (is there?). I
> considered using the posix librx to provide this, perhaps with useful
> wrapper functions that give the handling routines a simpler interface
> for users to work with, as the regcomp/regexec etc. business can be a
> pain. Does anyone know of any problems with rx, eg unsupported
> platforms? If so, are there alternatives that are more acceptable? The
> functionality would be very useful where routines have been initially
> developed in scripts and have to be moved to C-code to be part of new
> modules or library routines.
> 
> If it is OK, I would like to propose that this be incorporated into
> GRASS 5.1, maybe with the rx library bundled (as it's not standard in
> installations even though it is used by many software packages).

GNU libc6 provides native POSIX regex handling.  Don't know about librx,
found a librxp but its a metalanguage thingy for XML parsing ??

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>

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