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- From: loreti@mxsld2.pd.infn.it (Maurizio Loreti)
- Subject: Re: regular expression matching source code
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- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 07:51:50 GMT
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- In article <DMwHzn.LIF@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>, waetzig@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Todd Waetzig) writes:
- >I am looking for the 'C' or 'C++' source for a function to
- >perform a match of a string. This function would
- >use the syntax of regular expressions. This regular
- >expression matching would be similar to that used by
- >grep and sed.
- >
- >Ideally it would look something like
- >
- >if (match("^1([A-Z]*|[0-9]*)Z?",string_to_search) == 0)
- > printf("match found ");
- >
- >this would match a string_to_search if it
- > began with a digit 1
- > followed by any number of occurences of uppercase letters
- > or by any number of occurrences of digits
- > followed by zero or one occurrence of the letter Z
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >--
- >Todd Waetzig Programmer/Analyst Boeing Computer Services
- > waetzig@bcstec.ca.boeing.com
-
- Have a look at the 'regexp' package of the FSF; available from
- prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu - of finger fsf@prep.ai.mit.edu for a list of
- mirrors. Good luck...
- --
- Maurizio Loreti http://mvxpd5.pd.infn.it/wwwcdf/mlo.html
- Un. of Padova, Dept. of Physics - Padova, Italy loreti@padova.infn.it
-