Thanks for answering - if I am getting this right this is actually pretty
straightforward and it seems to be only a business concerning the
escaping/unescaping of some characters '|(){}?+' if I am getting this
right, so far it's working.On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 11:02 PM Kurtis Rader <kra...@skepticism.us> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 2:34 PM Pietro <pietro.paol...@cognitivecredit.com> > wrote: > >> I am trying to solve the problem of automatically translating a raft of >> regexes which were originally intended for GNU sed but that I'd like to run >> using GoLang, if feasible. >> >> I could not find any syntax options/settings for the regex package which >> I am assuming is quite strict in its syntax, PCRE or GNULib have options >> that can change some parts of the syntax. >> > > See https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/#CompilePOSIX and > https://github.com/google/re2/wiki/Syntax. If your sed expressions are in > BRE form it's straightforward to translate them to ERE form. It would not > surprise me if someone has already written a tool to translate BRE/ERE > syntax to Go's RE2 syntax but I'm not aware of any such tool. > > -- > Kurtis Rader > Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAD1wxRJzsHKbDSb9nadvz9VR-bvvUjUk8oE_OMEuuM0sjA6U5g%40mail.gmail.com.
