Re: regular expressions

["Paul T. Graunke" <ptg@ccs.neu.edu>]

Have you considered using Dorai Sitaram's pregexp package?
  http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dorai/pregexp/pregexp.html

Paul

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:38:39AM -0500, Chris Uzdavinis wrote:
> 
> Is there any interest in improving the regular expression support in
> mzScheme?  For example, I'd really like to have non-greedy
> repetitions, and some of the other "nice" features that make the Perl
> regexp so powerful.
> 
> There is a good library called pcre (perl-compatible regular
> expressions) which has a license that looks to be usable in mzScheme,
> and it would greatly improve the regexp suppport.  I'd like to see
> mzScheme use this more powerful library.
> 
> I guess this leaves me with two (and a half) questions:
> 
>   1) if such a change were to happen, would it require someone outside
>      to submit it to the mzScheme group, or is this the type of thing
>      that the core group would be interested in implementing?
> 
>   2) if it were to happen, would this replace the existing regexp
>      library, or just be implemented as an alternate library?  (I can
>      see a need for backwards compatibility, though I also see a use
>      for a more powerful library.)
> 
>   2b) If the two libraries were to co-exist, what would be a good way
>       to distinguish one regular expression from another?  That is,
>       what's a good naming convention for the scheme interface to the
>       pcre library, considering if the current regexp interface won't
>       change?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Chris