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Re: Can we do regular expression processing in C ?

Subject: Re: Can we do regular expression processing in C ?
From: Ian Collins
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:23:03 +1300
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c

Jack Klein wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:36:41 +1300, Ian Collins <ian-news@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote in comp.lang.c:
> 
>> Mahendra Kutare wrote:
>>> Or do we need to have any specific library ?
>>>
>>> I am more interested in knowing if we can do string pattern matching
>>> regular expression processing with C.
>>>
>> Not in standard C, there are plenty of extensions (POSIX regex for example).
> 
> I disagree, one most certainly can.
> 
> There are no functions for doing this in the standard library, so one
> would have to either write them, or find a library that already
> contained them.  But such a library could be written in strictly
> conforming C, at least for the ASCII character set.
> 
Didn't you see the clarification I posted an hour earlier?

-- 
Ian Collins.

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