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From: MROBINSON@wash-vax.bbn.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: pattern matching library for 1.4
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Date: 6 Apr 89 15:03:43 GMT
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w-colinp@microsoft.uucp writes:
> Henry Spencer wrote an excellent regular expression library you may wish
> to use.  (It's used in at least one Microsoft product!)  If you're so
> keen, how about hacking it into a sharable library and bestowing
> regexp.library on the world?

Kudos to Henry, and do you know where I could find that library?  However,
me getting his library will not solve any problems but mine.  My point was,
since Commodore appears to be making their string pattern matcher available
for filename matching purposes, why don't they make it available for other
purposes as well, and help us users (and you developers) *standardize* the
behavior and syntax of pattern matching on the Amiga?  Then bright people
like Henry won't have to spend their time redoing something already done,
tested, and supported.

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