Pattern-matching source code

[Ozan Yigit]

In <1991Feb14.143705.3911 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
(John Gordon) writes:

>        Hi, Netters.  Here is source code for a "grep"-like function.  Use
>it in your own programs.

[Holub's verbose implementation of ad-hoc regex omitted]

Hi Gordon, Holub's regex stuff is old hat. A PD implementation of all of
this + more in a package that is a clone of BSD regex library was posted to
this net around 1986. A much more advanced [read proper] and influential
implementation of regular expression package by Henry Spencer was also
posted around that time, and has been in heavy use ever since. I think you
may be much better served by one of these packages in your programs.

oz
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