Andrey Chernov <ache_at_nagual.pp.ru> writes: > "Dag-Erling Smørgrav" <des_at_des.no> writes: > > We don't have a locale-aware regex implementation. Henry Spencer > > wrote one for Tcl 8, and it seems to be under an MIT-equivalent > > license, but I'm not sure how hard it would be to extirpate. It > > might be easier to lift it from PostgreSQL, which also uses it. > No, we have it already for many years (libc/regexec). I hadn't noticed... ISTR it was an issue back when jphoward wrote his BSD-licensed grep. However, it's not the same engine - it's Spencer's old engine with multibyte support added. IIRC, it performs very poorly compared to the GNU regexp engine; it would be interesting to see how well the Tcl engine performs in comparison. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Tue Jun 17 2008 - 08:08:41 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:39:32 UTC