Rick> A couple of questions for any Unix-heads out there... 1. Does
Rick> anyone have a "freely distributable" regular expression parser
Rick> and/or text finding routine with these characteristics: A. It eats
Rick> Unicode text or UTF-8 on input B. It uses the typical Unixoid
Rick> regular expression syntax
Rick> 2. Has anyone given any serious thought to extensions of said
Rick> Unixoid regular expression syntax to handle non-English alphabets
Rick> used as "ranges" for pattern matching?
Timing IS everything! I'm finally finishing off mine and a version of it
(missing some of our more interesting features) will be made freely available
some time in the next couple of weeks (depending on my homework load). It is
a little different than the usual RE packages in that it compiles REs directly
to minimal DFAs.
The version to be distributed will be limited to handling UCS2 strings, but
can be very easily adapted to handle UTF8. It has most of the usual "Unixoid"
features except a few I haven't gotten around to yet (e.g. the interval
repetition operator {N,M}).
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