[mdlug] Regular Expression Library?

[Mark Montague]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 13:45, "Wojtak, Greg" <GregWojtak at quickenloans.com> 
wrote:
> I am in the middle of writing a program in C which will require some regular
> expression parsing.  I see on freshmeat.net that there are quite a few
> libraries available that I could link in.  Has anyone had any experience
> using any of them?  It seems a waste of time to even bother writing a regexp
> parser when there are a bunch of them out there.  C or C++ libraries will
> work, since I am not very far along and converting it into C++ won't be a
> problem.
>   

The C/C++ regular expression library I've seen used the most is PCRE, 
http://www.pcre.org/

This is what I'd look at first if I needed a C/C++ regexps.

                Mark Montague
                markmont at umich.edu