DOH! I just realized you were talking about reg-ex versus the build-in logging. I need more coffee. My first clue should have been this is the regexp-user mailing list:) Anyway, same reasoning applies for going with the jakarta package.
-----Original Message----- From: Dubois, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 3:59 PM To: 'Regexp Users List' Subject: RE: Jakarta RegEx vs Java Regex Thanks for your response Rod! Can someone list for me exactly what the advantages of the jakarta package are? It appears from the Java API documentation that the Java regex does not contain: 1. The conditional constructs (?{X}) and (?(condition)X|Y). 2. The embedded code constructs (?{code}) and (??{code}). 3. The embedded comment syntax (?#comment). 4. The preprocessing operations \l \u, \L, and \U. However, it appears to me that Items 2-4 are not really part of a regular expressions/pattern matching, but are nice features. That is, there are easy workarounds for embedding comments in Patterns, and the preprocessing operations are easily handled by the various String methods: String.toLowerCase() / String.toUpperCase() methods. I am not sure about the embedded code or the conditional constructs, however, since I have never used them. If the embedded code construct simply calls a method passing in the text of a particular matched group, then this would be easily accomplished via Java's regex as well. Also, can the functionality of conditional constructs be duplicated by either 1) a more complex regular expression that contains additional or-s "|", or the use of an if-then-else statement and multiple patterns? How are conditional constructs used? It appears to me, that the Jakarta package may offer some nice syntactic features for conditional constructs and embedded code/comments, and it's syntax is similar to Perl's. Would that summarize the Jakarta advantage? Also, what is the relationship between Jakarta ORO and regex? Comment - are there any plans in the works to add named match groups to Jakarta's regex offering? Thanks! - Jeff Hi Rod, Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Rod Macpherson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 4:29 PM To: Regexp Users List Subject: RE: Jakarta RegEx vs Java Regex Asked the same thing awhile back and the response was the jakarta stuff is better (their track record would not call that in to question) and of course it does not require a 1.4 JDK. One thing that did bug me about the build-in was that the logger did not take an object as a constructor so you had to give it the class object instead. Seemed like an annoying step backward. Anyway, we are sticking with log4j for the time being. -----Original Message----- From: Dubois, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 1:02 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Jakarta RegEx vs Java Regex What are the advantages of using the Jakarta's RegEx package versus the Java built-in RegEx, now that Java has built-in RegEx's? Thanks! Jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
