Re: PCRE library requirement

[Richard Campbell]

On Jan 31, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Rik wrote:

>>>>> str = "a ab abc"
>>>>> results = regexp (str, '\w+', "match")
>>>>> 
>>>>> If that fails because the actual libraries are truly POSIX
>>>> compliant then I
>>>>> think we should make PCRE a requirement. It is widely available and a
>>>>> number of patterns in the code use the very convenient '\s' or '\w'
>>>>> patterns rather than character classes.
>>>> 


octave:1> str = "a ab abc"
str = a ab abc
octave:2> results = regexp (str, '\w+', "match")
results = {}(1x0)