[Implemented] big request : regular expressions

Dr. Dri · Post by **Dr. Dri** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 2:50 pm

a regex lib would be a powerful feature of purebasic !

Dri

dell_jockey · Post by **dell_jockey** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:03 am

This has been asked a lot of time. A forum search on "regular expressions" returned eleven entries....

For now, you could try and use a library like http://www.pcre.org/
PCRE is a library that offers PERL 5 compatible regular expression evaluation. The library is free for any use - even commercial - so it might well be a basis for implementing a PureBasic RegEx library...

ricardo · Post by **ricardo** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:07 am

FloHimself has write 2 PB libs for regex, find it in purearea.net

dell_jockey · Post by **dell_jockey** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:50 pm

of course I was aware of the two regex libs that FloHimself published some years back. I did't seem to be able to locate them though.
Searching on purearea.net (both in the archive and the rest of the site) I drew a blank. The archive 2.0 on my laptop didn't have them either. Florian's old website (the one mentioned in his profile on the German board) isn't up anymore, so that's why I gave a link to the pcre site.

If anyone can re-post the source of those two regex libraries, I'd be very grateful!

FloHimself · Post by **FloHimself** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:53 pm

dell_jockey wrote:of course I was aware of the two regex libs that FloHimself published some years back. I did't seem to be able to locate them though.

http://purearea.net/pb/english/userlibs.php
-> http://purearea.net/pb/download/userlibs/PBRegExp.zip
-> http://purearea.net/pb/download/userlibs/PBRegExpEx.zip

dell_jockey · Post by **dell_jockey** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:16 pm

Thanks Flo! Danke schön! I searched for 'PBRegEx', not 'RegEx', silly me...