Re: What is wrong with a regex?

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/6/23 2:17 PM, alex xmb ratchev wrote:

>     The bash version doesn't matter. The determining factor is the C library
>     extended regular expression support.
>
>
> i d be for coding own all things , not so libc style

No. Why would I want to drag a regexp library around? Even one from gnulib
is just one more dependency to maintain. Stick with EREs as described in
the POSIX standard and you should be fine.

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