Re: [Chicken-users] adding a "standard" regexp engine?

[Kon Lovett]

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On Jul 7, 2006, at 2:48 AM, felix winkelmann wrote:

> A general question to all list members:
>
> The multiude of regex engines is both a pain for building and
> using chicken, as the regex-flavors are never quite the same
> and handling the different cases gets tedious quickly.
>
> What do others think about adding one regex library for
> alll platforms? It must be BSD licensed. Currently there
> are two candidates which look interesting:
>
> - PCRE

My vote is for PCRE.

> - Oniguruma (very powerful, but also very big)

Ogre (the Obj-C binding of Oniguruma; oni is usually translated as  
orge BTW) is very popular on MacOS (although most users don't know  
this as it is bundled w/ the apps the use it).

Also popular w/ the Ruby crowd.

- - Support for just about every text encoding

- - Wider ambiguity semantics

- - Wider subgroups semantics

Binding to Chicken would require a larger API to support the various  
matching & capture modes.

I think if you don't know you need it you don't need it. (Which  
ignorance level is this?)

> cheers,
> felix
>
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