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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Regular Expression Parser
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 18:23:13 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <4jqnkt$cma@charm.il.ft.hse.nl>, robert <robert@il.ft.hse.nl> wrote:
- >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/).
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- Now you read with me:
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