Hi, I'm taking up the challenge in writing a Free Pascal & fpGUI newsgroup reader. The main reason is really to archive the news content for off-line processing, so that I can extend the WebNews (cgi application) used by tiOPF and fpGUI projects to support searching message content (headers and body) of newsgroups. I also want to use the search feature for my custom written Wiki cgi application. There seems to be many people hosting private newsgroups, but don't have any message body search feature. The only alternative is to using something like Mozilla Thunderbird and ask to download newsgroup content for offline reading - though Thunderbird has some serious Search bugs which makes it pretty useless for the task!
Anyway, for searching I was thinking of using regular expressions - though I must admit, I know nothing of the subject (yet). As a preliminary tally of what components I can use, I have the following question: How does the 'regexp' unit included in FCL compare to components like TRegExpr [http://www.regexpstudio.com/TRegExpr/TRegExpr.html] and I heard some people mention PCRE? Though I have no clue what the latter is. :-) PS: If I am barking up the wrong tree and regular expressions are not the way to go, please enlighten me of an alternative route. eg; I would love to sort the messages in a Firebird database, but does anybody know if Firebird RDBMS supports of has some plugin for full text search? I don't like MySQL by the way! Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
