Subj : PCRE in Synchronet?
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Dec 17 2004 05:02 pm

  Re: PCRE in Synchronet?
  By: Angus Mcleod to Digital Man on Fri Dec 17 2004 07:22 pm

 >  >  > 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 nativel
 >  > 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
 >  > such).
 > 
 > I thought that would probably be the case.  :-/
 > 
 >  > For full PCRE support, a 3rd party cross-platform RE library would need t
 >  > utilized or figure out someway to use the spidermonkey RE code (assuming 
 >  > 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?

It probably "works" fine, but it's rather large.

 > 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!

What exactly did you want to do?

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