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- From: robert@il.ft.hse.nl (robert)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Regular Expression Parser
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 10:14:21 +0200
- Organization: LSD...melts in your mind, not in your hand
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- c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku):
- >No, never! The Linux and FreeBSD operating systems have regex code in their
- >libraries which has been obtained from Microsoft under a strict non-disclosure
- >agreement. The source code is, needless to say, unavailable.
-
- Pardon?
- Read with me:
- This is a nearly-public-domain reimplementation of the V8 regexp(3) package.
- It gives C programs the ability to use egrep-style regular expressions, and
- does it in a much cleaner fashion than the analogous routines in SysV.
-
- This is an excerpt from the README of the regexp-lib which comes with
- FreeBSD (src/lib/libcompat/regexp/).
-
- robert
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