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From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
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Subject: Re: Pattern Matching for the PC
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Date: 13 Nov 89 22:12:11 GMT
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In article <67975@philabs.Philips.Com>, brb@briar.philips.co
Bertan;6309;4.88;$0202) writes:
> 
> I am interested in C and Pascal source code or libraries having extensive 
> string parsing functions including pattern matching with regular expressions.
> 
> If no source or library is available, is there any literature describing how 
> to implement the above?

Why not look at the source for GNU grep or GNU AWK (GAWK)? At least both
are freely available and have been ported to the PC/MSDOS world. Look on  
simtel20 for the source and executables for GAWK (pd1:<msdos.awk>) and
and grep (pd1:<msdos.txtutl>).

						Ron

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