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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Regular Expressions HELP needed
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.225248.10743@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1578@media01.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 90 22:52:48 GMT

In article <1578@media01.UUCP> steed@media01.UUCP (Aristides Grigoriou) writes:
>	  - Are RE's standarised (POSIX,ANSI maybe) ?

POSIX 1003.2 is going to include some RE standardization.  As of the last
draft, it is going to resemble my regexp routines a whole lot more than
it resembles the abortions found in SysV and BSD.  I know of no current
implementation that exactly matches the POSIX stuff, however.
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"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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