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Re: [bug-gnulib] [bug-gnulib] Does regex.c support non-greedy quantifier


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: [bug-gnulib] [bug-gnulib] Does regex.c support non-greedy quantifiers?
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:14:53 +0200
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Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> Does gnulib's regex.c support Perl-style non-greedy quantifiers,
> specified by appending "?" to "*"?

Is it possible to transform a regex pattern that uses this feature into a
POSIX Extended Regex, that doesn't use it? If yes, you could parse the
regex - this is not the most difficult thing to do, and you can also take
the code from grep's dfa.c - and pass the transformed pattern to the system's
regex facility.

Bruno





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