Re: [Cfengine] Re: Stumped on editfiles problem

[Bas van der Vlies]

It is simple ;-):
http://pcre.sourceforge.net/

Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:

> The main reason for not "just going ahead and doing this" is that there
> are sometimes conflixt between different regex packages that cause
> neither of them to work, and lots og segmentation faults.
>
> I do not know about the PCRE, but I think it sound like something
> we should look into. Do you have a link to it?
>
> M
>
> On 26 Aug, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Mark Burgess wrote:
> >
> > > My point is that cfengine does not implement the regexs. That is a
> > > function of your operating system. The "POSIX" regular expressions are
> > > implemented in several versions by different manufacturers. It is not
> > > really surprising that they do not always agree or work similarly.
> >
> > Ouch. All of a sudden some of the problems I had with regexp and
> > cfengine also make sense.
> >
> >
> > > The documentation describes what I believe is the correct for posix
> > > regexs and refers most specifically to the GNU rx library, if I
> > > recall. I do not know why you are having trouble. I only know that I
> > > have often had inexplicable trouble myself on several occasions with
> > > regexs.
> >
> > In view of this, having support for the PCRE library would be a very
> > good thing, I feel. It would make the tool consistent across platforms
> > as well as providing a good, fairly well known regexp implementation.
> >
> > Alternately, using the GNU rx library on all platforms would be good,
> > since that would have the same effect, even if it is not quite such a
> > nice engine...
> >
> >     Daniel
>
>
>
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