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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: [c] Re: Regular expression matcher?
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Archive-name: c/library/regexp/0--
Archive: ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/regexp.* [128.100.3.6]
Original-posting-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Original-subject: Re: Regular expression matcher?
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)

In article <17555@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
>Is there some library somewhere that handles regexp macthing like grep
>(or, ideally, perl) does?

I think the lads over at ftp.cs.toronto.edu have a copy of mine available.
It does egrep-style regular expressions.  I believe the one in perl is a
heavily-mutated version of mine, although I haven't confirmed this.
Certainly mine is used in a pile of other things, including commercial
products from several companies.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

-- comp.archives file verification
ftp.cs.toronto.edu
-rw-r--r--  1 917      10           4350 Jul 30  1990 /pub/regexp.README
-rw-r--r--  1 917      10          26855 Jul 30  1990 /pub/regexp.shar.Z
found regexp ok
ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/regexp.*