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From: kdb@chinet.chi.il.us (Karl Botts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: regex for DOS
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Date: 15 Nov 90 02:51:37 GMT
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Can anyone recommend a regular expression parser/matcher package
that is complete and reasonably ready to compile under DOS?  I fetched
some source code from comp.sources.unix vol10 -- name contained the string
"regex" --  and got it compiled and running before I realized that it
supported an inadequate subset of full regular expressions.  So then I
broke the regex routines out of Gnu grep and tried those; they do a heck of
an optimization, no doubt, but the compiler module is an 80K .obj file, and
there seems to be some kind of allocation bug.  All this added up to a lot
more work than I was expecting.

Surely this battle has been fought and won?