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Posted to oro-dev@jakarta.apache.org by "Daniel F. Savarese" <df...@savarese.org> on 2002/10/14 18:26:25 UTC
Re: Perl5 extended regular expression support
In message <00...@brutesquadlabs.com>, "Bob Dickinson
\(BSL\)" writes:
>ORO has handled these expressions just fine with only one exception: the
>SpamAssassin rules use the negated case insensitivity extended regular
>expression, as in (?-i). Since ORO does not support this, I have to throw
>out about 20 expressions.
It looks like this first appeared in Perl 5.005. Perl5Compiler/Matcher
are still mostly just Perl 5.003 compatible and we seem to have settled
into adding later Perl features on an as-need basis rather than all at
once. I just added support for negated modifiers. Note, however, that
we still do not support Perl 5.005+ group-local modifiers such as
(?imsx-imsx:pattern).
You can do an anonymous CVS checkout of the latest source and test it out.
If it passes muster I think we should just release 2.0.8 instead of a
2.0.7-dev-2.
>Are there any plans to add this functionality? If no (or not soon), then is
>this something that would be straightforward for me to do, and where would I
>start?
This one happened to be straightforward and only required a couple changes
in Perl5Compiler. Other changes for things like group-local modifiers
and look-behind assertions will be significantly more involved. All told
it's a matter of enough nagging and enough available time to bring the
Perl stuff up to full Perl 5.6 (or are we at 6.0 yet) compatibility.
However, we really need some good unit tests before making the full
charge. It sounds like your Spam Assassin expressions would make a
good start for both regression and performance tests.
daniel
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Re: Perl5 extended regular expression support
Posted by "Bob Dickinson (BSL)" <bo...@brutesquadlabs.com>.
Daniel,
Wow. I wasn't even sure I'd get a response, and the code was checked
in before I got up this morning. Thanks.
The bad news (for me), is that I was sloppy in my explanation of what I
needed. I didn't even realize that standalone mode modifiers existed. I
used (?-i) as a shorthand for (?-i:regexp), which I now see was a mistake.
What I need is the group-local modifier.
So same questions, but this time pretend that I said (?-i:regexp)
everywhere I said (?-i). Sorry.
Bob
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Re: Perl5 extended regular expression support
Posted by "Mark F. Murphy" <ma...@tyrell.com>.
At 12:26 PM -0400 10/14/02, Daniel F. Savarese wrote:
>It looks like this first appeared in Perl 5.005. Perl5Compiler/Matcher
>are still mostly just Perl 5.003 compatible and we seem to have settled
>into adding later Perl features on an as-need basis rather than all at
>once. I just added support for negated modifiers.
Great job Daniel!
That was fast.... and just a small amount of change for the feature.
>This one happened to be straightforward and only required a couple changes
>in Perl5Compiler. Other changes for things like group-local modifiers
>and look-behind assertions will be significantly more involved. All told
>it's a matter of enough nagging and enough available time to bring the
>Perl stuff up to full Perl 5.6 (or are we at 6.0 yet) compatibility.
It was interesting to hear that ORO outperformed the 1.4 regex.
mark
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