I have a related solution that's coded at my level of Pharo skillz (aka
hacked). I used LibC and Perl to code a matches: method. It seems to work
well, but Perl has to be in the path.
The prototype with tests is at https://github.com/fuhrmanator/Keshi
self assert: ('a.*?com' asKSRegex matches:
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Hi
I would really like to resurrect the REPlugin and its image side abstraction
because
I think that this is important to support Perl level regex since it will help
people to reuse their knowledge.
If you are interested in helping let us know.
Stef
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