On 10/29/22 1:50 AM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
This seems like a good reason to simply translate extglobs into regexes, which should run in linear time, rather than put effort into building and debugging a parallel implementation.
If someone wanted to do this, I would take a look at incorporating the results, as long as it didn't add dependencies on, say, pcre or gnulib regex. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/