Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Needed: a public domain regular expression interpreter
Message-ID: <1991May31.183753.27822@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 18:37:53 GMT
References: <12817@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <12817@pucc.Princeton.EDU> EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
>I need an interpreter for regular expressions...
>     1.  It must be in C.
>     2.  It must be meet egrep rather than grep specifications.
>     3.  It must be in the public domain.
>     4.  It must be fully documented and of high quality.

If you're willing to settle for one that is freely redistributable --
"public domain" is a legal term with a very specific meaning, not a
synonym for "freely redistributable" -- my regexp package is widely
available, widely known, and widely used.
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