Sorry if I wasn't clear earlier: the IBM C library has POSIX compatible RE functions. For Perl compatible REs, you would probably want to port the pcre.orglibrary (written in C). I'm not sure if it would be practical to run Perl from within an exit.
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < [email protected]> wrote: > In > <cahm_n2nfskfvqo2nb+se74rznbpvkzq+rtzk23tthcbcn2e...@mail.gmail.com>, > on 05/30/2012 > at 03:57 PM, Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> said: > > >Also, one could always use the POSIX-compatible > > POSIX defines RE and BRE, which are very different. Do those routines > implement Perl-style regular expressions? > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
