On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:54:22AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Based on the NetBSD thread, pcre also has an area where it is not > POSIX compliant (and does not plan to become POSIX compliant) and does > not provide BREs. This may present a sticking point. Replacing the standard behaviour with PCREs definitely is a bad idea. But, well, it would actually be nice if PCREs would be available as an *option*. Analogue to grep, grep -E / sed, sed -E, ... one might have grep -P (and not confuse it with pgrep ;-), sed -P and so on. - D.Received on Thu Feb 17 2005 - 23:35:38 UTC
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