cjosta@tasu77.UUCP (Jonathan Sweedler) (03/23/89)
Does anyone have a description of the syntax for V8 regular expressions.
I am trying to use regular expressions in perl, but the man page does not
give a complete description of R.E., it just says that they are the same
as the V8 R.E.
Specifically, I am looking for a way to match X occurances of a
character. I read the 'ed' manual, and it said to use the '\{', '\}'
syntax, but I tried this in perl and it didn't work. i.e. I did
's/d\{3\}/dog/;' to change 'ddd' into 'dog' (please don't tell me I can
just do 's/ddd/dog/;' !!).
I assume V8 uses a different syntax (or doesn't have this functionality).
If anyone has a complete description of the V8 R.E. I would appreciate it
if you could send it to me. Thanks in advance.
Jonathan Sweedler === National Semiconductor Israel
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