Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!guido From: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.unix,net.unix-wizards Subject: Is there a public domain version of regex(3) ? Message-ID: <6237@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 13:28:10 EST Article-I.D.: mcvax.6237 Posted: Thu Dec 13 13:28:10 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 00:39:12 EST Reply-To: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.lang.c:3486 net.unix:3111 net.unix-wizards:11040 [If you see this message in three groups, update your news software!] I am writing an editor which, for compatibility's sake, must include a regular expression matching function exactly as that in ed(1) (with which our secretaries grew up -- not the most progressive force in the world. :-) BSD unix systems document this as regex(3), but I don't want to make my code dependent on BSD, or even unix, for that matter. I can't just put a copy of BSD's regex.c in my distribution, because this would violate all sorts of copyright restrictions (I suppose). So... Does anyone know of a public domain program which does the same? (If not, I guess I'll write it myself, but it's not my idea of fun.) -- Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam guido@mcvax.UUCP "You're right. But you're boring."