Still, there are advantages to an in-image solution, can't says this enough, 
these external lib dependencies pose their own problems ...

> On 5 Feb 2019, at 08:33, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, Pharo regex implementation is very naive. 
> We will be moving to a PCRE binding to match outside world standards but we 
> have not had the time to work on it :(
> 
> Esteban
> 
>> On 5 Feb 2019, at 00:27, Manuel Leuenberger <leuenber...@inf.unibe.ch> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I just noticed that the Pharo regexes do not understand non-greedy matches. 
>> A regex engine to be PCRE is kind of essential, not having '.*?' to be a 
>> parseable and working regex is a bummer. Are there any more powerful regex 
>> engines around for Pharo? I could not find any.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Manuel
>> 
>> 
> 
> 


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