well I partailly misread the original request REG_REGEXP in <regex.h> is not hacked the original <regexp.h> was a hack the next release will have ~(V) for system V regexp
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:06:54 -0400 Glenn Fowler wrote: > currently there isn't one > REG_REGEXP is implemented by a slighly different mechanism (i.e., its hacked) > I'll have to look at the code to see how much damage it would do > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:40:01 +0200 Wendy Lin wrote: > > I have a long standing question: In ksh I can use different regex > > engines using ~(E) for grep -E, ~(G) for normal grep, ~(F) for grep -F > > and so on. I saw that libast has support for a SVID grep engine with > > REG_REGEXP but I can't find the corresponding switch for ~(). Does > > anyone know how I can use REG_REGEXP engine from ksh scripts? > > Wendy > > _______________________________________________ > > ast-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users > _______________________________________________ > ast-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
