Harold Fuchs wrote:
Uwe Fischer wrote:
<snip>
OOo Writer's regular expressions are a modified subset of the Unix
style regular expressions.
<snip>
In my very humble and purely personal opinion, the fact that they are "a modified subset
..." makes the implementation "wrong".
> Largely because of users' expectations and partly because it would
have surely
>been easier to incorporate a standard library than to re-invent the
wheel. No offence to anyone intended.
Sorry, but such "standard libraries" do work on ASCII Text Strings and
that´s just not what we have here so there would have been no way to
just simply use a standard library only. There would have to be
something done new which works on full-formatted text and OOo Writers
internal data structures just as similar and close as possible to what
users already know from other use cases of regular expressions. It´s not
reinventing the wheel it´s just that you can not use something that was
designed for a bike directly on a car. No offence intended also.
You can of course try to prove that my opionion is wrong by showing how
an alternative "correct" implementation that makes use of a "standard"
library without modification looks like ;-)
Kind regards,
Bernd
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