Subj : PCRE in Synchronet?
To   : Digital Man
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Fri Dec 17 2004 07:22 pm

  Re: PCRE in Synchronet?
  By: Digital Man to Angus Mcleod on Fri Dec 17 2004 14:10:00

 >  > Quick question:  Can SBBS do Perl-compatible Regular Expressions?
 > 
 > Not currently.

Pity.

 > I don't see a function in the SpiderMonkey API to handle regexp's natively. 
 > does contain private functions to handle regexp's (see include/mozilla/js/
 > jsregexp.h), but it's very JS-centric (deals with JS contexts and strings an
 > such).

I thought that would probably be the case.  :-/

 > For full PCRE support, a 3rd party cross-platform RE library would need to b
 > utilized or figure out someway to use the spidermonkey RE code (assuming you
 > don't want to create one from scratch).

No, I wouldn't fancy doing one from scratch!  :-)  

There's always PCRE (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcre/) for which 
there is a windows port (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/pcre.htm) 
but who knows how well it works?

I was hoping that a suitable library had already been included in the SBBS 
code-base.  I don't much fancy sticking an entire library in there to do a 
silly proggy or two!


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