RE: gnu regexp comparison

[Stephane Bailliez <sb...@imediation.com>]

btw, if a contributor is reading this it would be nice to apply a dirty
patch I sent a long time ago (2001-02-13) to fix the iterators.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jakarta-regexp-user&m=98208476024456&w=2

(Sorry for the crosspost)

Related discussion & bug:
http://www.mail-archive.com/regexp-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg00090.html
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3273

Thanks.

-- 
 Stephane Bailliez 
 Software Engineer, Paris - France 
 iMediation - http://www.imediation.com 
 Disclaimer: All the opinions expressed above are mine and not those from my
company. 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Stevens [mailto:jon@latchkey.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 7:48 PM
> To: regexp-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: gnu regexp comparison
> 
> 
> on 10/15/01 3:08 AM, "Peter Gelderbloem" 
> <pe...@generator.co.za> wrote:
> 
> > hi
> > i used gnu regexp and want to start using jakarta regexp....
> 
> I'm curious. Why?
> 
> > with gnu.regexp you basically specify a regular expression 
> and specify a
> > string and it will give you all instances of matches within 
> the specified
> > string.....(i am trying to extract filenames from a 
> javascript document). in
> > jakarta regexp there does not seem to be any way of doing 
> this....am i missing
> > something? are there any examples of doing this? i cannot 
> find any...
> > thanx
> > peter
> 
> There is no comparison between the two. Jakarta regexp is a much more
> lightweight package than the GNU one. If you want a 
> comparison, look at the
> Jakarta ORO package.
> 
> -jon
>