On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Bert Huijben <b...@qqmail.nl> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Johan Corveleyn [mailto:jcor...@gmail.com] >> Sent: vrijdag 27 januari 2012 16:31 >> To: Subversion Development >> Subject: regexp matching in svn? >> >> Hi, >> >> Is there any existing regexp matching functionality somewhere in de >> svn codebase, in a way that is reusable for new functionality? If not, >> does anyone know of a reusable third-party library that could be >> easily intregrated (I know, it would be Yet Another Dependency, but >> I'm just asking for options ...)? >> >> Use-case: I like the '-x-p' (show C-function) option for 'svn diff', >> but this is limited to C-like syntax. GNU diff also has a '-F RE' >> option, where RE is a regular expression that is used for matching the >> "function-line". I know I could make use of this functionality by >> invoking GNU diff as external diff command, but for several reasons it >> would be interesting if svn could do this internally (for one thing: >> GNU diff isn't always available / installed). >> >> And I'm sure there would be other useful things people could do with >> regexp functionality ... > > Apr (or Apr-Util) has regex support, not sure which but we require both.
Thanks, but I can't find it. I found apr_strmatch in apr-util, but that doesn't do regex, it just matches a fixed string (which would also be useful (it actually covers my concrete use-case), but it's not -F). Maybe I'm overlooking something. If it's not in apr(-util) or some other dependency we already have, how about PCRE (www.pcre.org) ? -- Johan
