Hello Mr. Saifi, Well I am, not aware of Boost and PCRE, as I did not get any chance to work with them, but the reg-ex of both perl and Java are almost compatible. Though Java requires a little more or tweak to the perl regex.
e.g. for representing a 'dot' in perl we use the following regex \. same in java requires an extra '\' to support the initial backslash \\. Please check out the following links, for regular-expressions in java. http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/regex/ http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/package-summary.html I had recently done a project of mine using regular expressions in java and personally speaking, I really liked the Java Reg-Ex library. Hope this helps you, with regards, dhiraj -- Hi Dhiraj: Thanks for the info. The in-compatibility thing really breaks some of the reg-ex stuff, especially the stuff related to position of variables and matching parens. thanks Saifi.
