henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (04/15/91)
Archive-name: c/library/regexp/0-- Archive: ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/regexp.* [128.100.3.6] Original-posting-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Original-subject: Re: Regular expression matcher? Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <17555@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes: >Is there some library somewhere that handles regexp macthing like grep >(or, ideally, perl) does? I think the lads over at ftp.cs.toronto.edu have a copy of mine available. It does egrep-style regular expressions. I believe the one in perl is a heavily-mutated version of mine, although I haven't confirmed this. Certainly mine is used in a pile of other things, including commercial products from several companies. -- And the bean-counter replied, | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology "beans are more important". | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry -- comp.archives file verification ftp.cs.toronto.edu -rw-r--r-- 1 917 10 4350 Jul 30 1990 /pub/regexp.README -rw-r--r-- 1 917 10 26855 Jul 30 1990 /pub/regexp.shar.Z found regexp ok ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/regexp.*