Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Regular expression matcher?
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.024610.2955@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1991 02:46:10 GMT
References: <17555@venera.isi.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

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.
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