On 3/24/09, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: > > here's what the regexp page says: > > The Simple Regular Expressions described below differ from the > Internationalized Regular Expressions described on the regex(5) manual > page in the following ways: > > * only Basic Regular Expressions are supported > * the Internationalization features--character class, equivalence class, > and multi-character collation--are not supported. > > if these are indeed the only differences then I can add a REG_NOI18N > regcomp() flag -- but I need verification of exactly what that means > does that mean that it is byte based, or does . match a multibyte char?
It supports and matches multibyte characters, only supports Basic Regular Expressions and does not support the extended set of character *classes*. The name REG_NOI18N would be misleading, its better to call it REG_REGEXP (basic regexp). Jenny -- Jennifer Pioch, Uni Frankfurt _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
