Hi Pedro,

On Thursday, 2011-06-23 12:39:49 -0700, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:

> OpenOffice has a C++ interface to GNU regex so Google's
> RE2 seemed like a natural fit there. Unfortunately I see
> TextSearch::RESrchBkwrd in textsearch.cxx so I assume we
> need backreferences. The Re2 website says:
> 
> "If you absolutely need backreferences and generalized
> assertions, then RE2 is not for you, but you might be
> interested in irregexp, Google Chrome's regular expression
> engine."

I strongly propose to go for ICU's RE instead. OOo already makes heavy
use of ICU, the ICU REs support Unicode conforming to TR18
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/ and seem to have all we need. See
http://userguide.icu-project.org/strings/regexp

  Eike

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