Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> If possible, it seems preferable to me to use the platform's C
>> library regex support rather than make wget dependent on another
>> library...
>
> Note that some platforms don't have library support for regexps, so
> we'd have to bundle anyway.
Oh, and POSIX regexps don't support -- and never will -- non-greedy
quantifiers, which are perhaps the most useful single additions of
Perl 5 regexps.
Incidentally, regex.c bundled with GNU Emacs supports them, along with
non-capturing ("shy") groups, another very useful feature.
