Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Sam Steingold Subject: Re: cygwin/regex is non-POSIX Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:35:37 -0500 Organization: disorganization Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <20040118050449.GA3672@efn.org> <20040119201357.GA2608@efn.org> <20040120194127.GA3880@efn.org> Reply-To: sds@gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) > * Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [2004-01-20 11:41:27 -0800]: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:38:40PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: >> >> Finally, a common extension appears to be the use or "?" after a >> >> repetition specification to mean non-greedy matching, e.g. >> >> "a+?" will match only the first "a" in "aaaa". >> > You want the pcre packages then (pcre and pcre-devel). >> no, not really. > Care to say why? My interest in regular expressions is limited to maintaining CLISP regexp & pcre modules: this specific issue was motivated by my attempt to adopt a regexp testsuite (comments welcome - not here but on ) Could you (or anyone else) explain to me the rationale behind BREs supporting back-refs and EREs not supporting them? This is very counterintuitive. I don't think this is directly relevant to cygwin, so private e-mail is welcome. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/