On Fri, Jan 27, 2012, at 21:30, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Bert Huijben <b...@qqmail.nl> wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Johan Corveleyn [mailto:jcor...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: vrijdag 27 januari 2012 16:31 > >> To: Subversion Development > >> Subject: regexp matching in svn? > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Is there any existing regexp matching functionality somewhere in de > >> svn codebase, in a way that is reusable for new functionality? If not, > >> does anyone know of a reusable third-party library that could be > >> easily intregrated (I know, it would be Yet Another Dependency, but > >> I'm just asking for options ...)? > >> > >> Use-case: I like the '-x-p' (show C-function) option for 'svn diff', > >> but this is limited to C-like syntax. GNU diff also has a '-F RE' > >> option, where RE is a regular expression that is used for matching the > >> "function-line". I know I could make use of this functionality by > >> invoking GNU diff as external diff command, but for several reasons it > >> would be interesting if svn could do this internally (for one thing: > >> GNU diff isn't always available / installed). > >> > >> And I'm sure there would be other useful things people could do with > >> regexp functionality ... > > > > Apr (or Apr-Util) has regex support, not sure which but we require both. > > Thanks, but I can't find it. I found apr_strmatch in apr-util, but > that doesn't do regex, it just matches a fixed string (which would > also be useful (it actually covers my concrete use-case), but it's not > -F). Maybe I'm overlooking something. > > If it's not in apr(-util) or some other dependency we already have, > how about PCRE (www.pcre.org) ?
I must have missed the point where you explained why decreeing "GNU diff must be installed" company policy is not an option. > > -- > Johan >
