Thread

Possible replacement regex

Hannu Krosing <hannu@trust.ee> — 1998-02-24T16:08:06Z

Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu> wrote:

> > Would you recommend we replace our regex stuff with something else?
>
> My only real competitor :-) right now appears to be the GNU rx package,
>
Actually there is a very nice regular expression package (re) inside the
python 1.5 (http://www.python.org/)
distribution (it does the perl-style regular expressions, with some
minor differences to fit the python programming model)

There is also an older version (regex) that does
emacs/grep/awk/xxx-style regex (selectable by set_syntax)

They all fall under the python license which seems to me very compatible
with postgresql ona.

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Hannu Krosing