Re: regexp character classes not supported?

[Klaus Schilling]

From: Ian Price <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: regexp character classes not supported?
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:47:11 +0000

> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > If you'd like a more advanced regexp library, and don't mind the fact
> > that it will be much slower than Guile's built-in regexps, I recommend
> > that you look at Alex Shinn's irregex package:
> >
> >   http://synthcode.com/scheme/irregex/
> 
> It is a very nice library, and guildhall users can obtain it with
> 
>   guild install wak-irregex
> 
> and require it with (use-modules (wak irregex))
> 
> > Irregex is written with Unicode in mind, and supports not only
> > perl-style regexps, but also Olin Shivers' SRE (Scheme Regular
> > Expression) syntax, which is a far superior notation for complex
> > or dynamically-constructed regexps.

does irregex support SNOBOL-style patterns?

Klaus Schilling