Path: utzoo!censor!geac!yunexus!oz
From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: A full, V7-Compatible expr(1)
Message-ID: <2898@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 89 03:47:11 GMT
References: <13618@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development
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In article <13618@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> housel@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter S. Housel) writes:
>	The regular expression code is my own, as it was not possible
>to use any of the commonly available regular expression matching
>libraries.  (expr(1) uses the ed(1) regexp syntax, while the libraries
>implement extensions or improvements.

Hmmm ? My implementation of bsd-clone regexp (pd) library would have saved
you a lot of time, as its "extensions" are but minor, and it would have
been trivial to zap them (5 minutes). Rest behaves as expected... Ah welll...

oz
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