[comp.editors] Regular Expression Searching

bmacintyre@watsol.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) (09/09/88)

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I was wondering if anyone had the source for, or reference to, a set of 
regular expression searching routines that allow forward and, hopefully,
backward searching, although just forward would be ok.  I don't just
want a "does this string match this expression" routine, but a "what is
the first occurance of this expression in this <?>"  where the <?> 
represents a stream of text that I provide one character at a time
( probably by specifying a routine for the package to that behaves like
  getc() )

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Blair

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