Re: Perl5 extended regular expression support
"Mark F. Murphy" <[email protected]>
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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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark F. Murphy, Director Software Development <mailto:[email protected]> Tyrell Software Corp <http://www.tyrell.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------