From: Steven Smith <sos22@cam.ac.uk>
To: "J." <mailing-lists@xs4all.nl>
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (F)using perl regex engine from C ?
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:46:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030213234623.GA14860@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0302140025040.8019-100000@hestia>
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> I was wondering if it is possible to access the perl regex engine from a
> C program. Is there a interface to it? Have people done it ? I
> guess so, but where should I start searching ?
It isn't the Perl regex engine, but libpcre (Perl Compatible Regular
Expressions) is fairly close.
Failing that, you'd probably need to either copy and paste chunks of
the Perl source code, or use libperl and run the regexps from embedded
Perl.
Of course, if you just need regular expressions, and aren't bothered
about the Perl-specific things, you could use the regex functions in
libc (regcomp, regexec, regerror, and regfree).
Steven Smith,
sos22@cam.ac.uk.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-13 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-31 2:40 interfacing other languages David Eduardo Gomez Noguera
2003-01-31 4:07 ` Hemant Mohan
2003-02-04 15:31 ` Reading from pipe Alexi Jordanov
2003-02-04 21:06 ` Glynn Clements
2003-02-13 23:32 ` using perl regex engine from C ? J.
2003-02-13 23:46 ` Steven Smith [this message]
2003-02-14 2:03 ` J.
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