bruce wrote: > hi... > > i'm considering a C based project were i might have to do some > file/text/html parsing.. given the nature of perl, i'd prefer to do any > file/text parsing using perl's regex strength... > > can someone tell me what's the prefered method of returing information from > a perl app to a C app... > > ie if foo has something like > abc = system `perl cat.pl "att1, att2"` > > how would i return an array/list of items from cat.pl into foo...
This seems unnecessary. Perfectly good C regexp routines are readily available; indeed, you very likely have a set built-in. They're a little harder to work with than Perl regexps are, but they're normally much easier to handle than C-to-Perl bridging is. If, on the other hand, you want to parse HTML, don't use regexps (except as a low-level tool). There is software readily available to do the job, which is non-trivial. -- John W. Kennedy "The blind rulers of Logres Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue." -- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude" _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
