On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 03:28:24PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:32:38 -0400 > Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > > 'man perlre' (perl regular expressions) is a good reference in > > most cases; more so if you're actually using perl, of course. > > It's been a long time since I used perl regularly, but it might come in > handy as an online reference. Are perl regular expressions "compatible" > with the ones used by grep/sed/awk, etc? I think I remember reading > that there are differences between them?
There are differences between them; perl expands on the basic regexp system in some interesting and useful ways. So useful, in fact, that many packages implement perl regexps as a matter of course via libpcre -- the Perl Compatible Regular Expression library. -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150409155722.ge19...@randomstring.org
