Thread: regular expression searches

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    Question regular expression searches

    I need your opinion on the best way to include regular expression searches in a C app. I presume there is some library out there...my other option is embedded perl.
    C programming resources:
    GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
    The C Book -- nice online learner guide
    Current ISO draft standard
    CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
    3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
    cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge

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    There is a regular expression library that works pretty well.

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    POSIX systems support regular expressions. You should probably have a man page/pages for it; look for regcomp, or regexec.

    There's also PCRE, which does Perl-style regular expressions. I'm not sure what range of implementations PCRE works on; POSIX at least.

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    This here looks like a good thread.

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