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It handles only regular expressions, while Perl regexps give more

It handles only regular expressions, while Perl regexps give more

Posted Mar 12, 2010 17:51 UTC (Fri) by rriggs (subscriber, #11598)
In reply to: It handles only regular expressions, while Perl regexps give more by epa
Parent article: Google's RE2 regular expression library

Actually, I think this will be widely adopted precisely because it can always make those guarantees. I would really like to see this as an algorithm selection option in the Boost Regex library.


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