Re: Stumped on editfiles problem

[Andrew Stribblehill]

Quoting Mark Burgess <Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no> (2003-08-23 09:41:11 BST):
> 
> You cannot compare cfengine's posix regexs to perl. Perl has its own
> library. The posix regexs are not always compatible between OS's.
> 
> There has been some discussion about whether we should switch to
> perl regexs in cfengine. The main reason for not doing this is that
> it introduces dependencies on perl that are undesirable. If some
> alternative syntax could distinguish the two it would be 
> useful to have both.

Actually, my suggestion was to go for Perl-compatible regular
expressions using Phillip Hazell's PCRE library. It's not tied to
Perl in any way.

It's on my to-do list but I'd be pleased if someone beat me to the
punch ;)

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