Regular expression matcher?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <17555 at venera.isi.edu> jas at ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
>Is there some library somewhere that handles regexp macthing like grep
>(or, ideally, perl) does?

I think the lads over at ftp.cs.toronto.edu have a copy of mine available.
It does egrep-style regular expressions.  I believe the one in perl is a
heavily-mutated version of mine, although I haven't confirmed this.
Certainly mine is used in a pile of other things, including commercial
products from several companies.
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