C regex equiv to Python implementation?

[techiepundit]

I've been writing code in Python to prototype part of an application.
I've used the re regular expression pattern matcher. Now I have to take
what I've written and recode it in C to fit in an existing C app.

Anyway, is there a way to use the re regular expression evaluator in C?
Is it written in C?

Or does anyone know of a similar one that does search and match in
close to the same fashion with begin and end values returned?

 

[Ganesan Rajagopal]

I've been writing code in Python to prototype part of an application.
I've used the re regular expression pattern matcher. Now I have to take
what I've written and recode it in C to fit in an existing C app.

What platform? Linux includes a regex(7) implementation in the C
library. However, it doesn't support many of the extensions that Python
regexes support. Try http://www.pcre.org/. There are pre-build binaries for
Windows also.

Ganesan

 

[techiepundit]

Ganesan,

I'm trying to stay portable between Windows and Linux. My app will run
on Linux when deployed. But we do a lot of simulation on Windows
because of better dev tools available on Windows.

So I really want a regular expression implementation that'll compile
under MS VS 2003 C++ and also under Gnu C++ for Linux on both x86 and
ARM targets.

 

[Jorgen Grahn]

Ganesan,

I'm trying to stay portable between Windows and Linux. My app will run
on Linux when deployed. But we do a lot of simulation on Windows
because of better dev tools available on Windows.

(Lots of people seem to do so, and I can't understand why. I tend to
translate that to "we're not comfortable with working on our target
platform" ...)

So I really want a regular expression implementation that'll compile
under MS VS 2003 C++ and also under Gnu C++ for Linux on both x86 and
ARM targets.

Read the parent posting again. He recommended PCRE as the best compatible
solution. It would surprise me /a lot/ if that didn't compile on Windows.

/Jorgen