1 Regular expressions status
2 Fri Oct 25 19:36:59 MEST 2002
4 Boost 1.28 and 1.29 didn't compile on Solaris with STL 4.0, therefor
7 Made compile and link regex under wntmsci9 (MSVC 6.03 with STLport 4.0)
8 and unxsols3 (Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 with STLport 4.0). Failed
9 on unxlngi4 (g++ 3.0.1 with glibc 2.1.1 and STLport 4.0) due to wctype (and
10 maybe other wide character functions) not properly supported. Gave up due to
11 time restrictions, feel free to improve.
13 Archive Regex_Experimental.tar.gz contains RE.* files that may be used
14 for further approaches. Extract and issue the command line
16 dmake -f RE.makefile.mk
18 Even if it compiled for all platforms, the remaining issue would be use
19 of locales. The system's locale would be used, which doesn't guarantee
20 that it works like intended, especially behavior could be different
23 I had a short glance at the PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions)
24 available at http://www.pcre.org/, good library, but doesn't support
25 Unicode. Localized 256 octets tables are created from locale
26 information. Rudimentary UTF-8 support is implemented, but incomplete
29 Hope we can solve the RE issues somehow :-/
30 Eike Rathke <er@openoffice.org>