Re: [Chicken-users] Why no PCRE for Windows?

[felix winkelmann]

> The newLISP executable for windows includes the PCRE engine
> and is only 180,736 bytes in size.

Hm. PCRE is even BSD licensed, but I'm a bit reluctant to add third
party software to the distribution.

> #;4> (string-search "foo.*bar" "foo\nbar")
> #f
> #;5> (string-search "foo.*bar" "foo-bar")
> ("foo-bar")
>
> The dot doesn't match a newline.  Using either regular-expression
> engine, how does one change that?

I can look into that next week, when I'm sitting in front of a linux
box again, ok? Generally it will mean using optional arguments for
the "regexp" function (for pcre, I dunno about pregexp, yet).


cheers,
felix