[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] g.xlist/g.xremove addons (C version of g.mlist/g.mremove)

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Sun Sep 7 04:20:42 EDT 2008


On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Glynn:
>> Or we can make the C versions use basic REs for -r and add e.g.
>> -e for extended REs.
>
> I think it would be better to offer just one regex flag.

I tend to agree. 80-95% of the users won't know the real
differences between basic and extended REs (and sincerely,
regex docs are hard to understand).

Markus


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