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- From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: bsd equivalent?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.220510.24794@cm.cf.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 22:05:08 GMT
- Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System)
- Organization: Intelligent Systems Lab, ELSYM, Universiity of Wales, College of
- Cardiff.
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- Could someone give me a bsd equivalent to the following sysv code. As a
- temp. fix I just used re_comp and re_exec but I'm not sure whether
- there's some subleties that I've missed since I don't use sysv systems.
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- compile(regex_str, regex_buf, ®ex_buf[MAXPATHLEN],'\0');
- step(s, regex_buf);
-
- I'm trying to port guide which is needed by some xview programs. Guide
- uses an AT&T proprietary file regexp.h which contains source code for
- compile and step, the package (xvnews) seems to work fine when I use
- re_comp and re_exec but I may have missed some important difference.
-