Re: regexp character classes not supported?

[Ian Price]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> If you'd like a more advanced regexp library, and don't mind the fact
> that it will be much slower than Guile's built-in regexps, I recommend
> that you look at Alex Shinn's irregex package:
>
>   http://synthcode.com/scheme/irregex/

It is a very nice library, and guildhall users can obtain it with

  guild install wak-irregex

and require it with (use-modules (wak irregex))

> Irregex is written with Unicode in mind, and supports not only
> perl-style regexps, but also Olin Shivers' SRE (Scheme Regular
> Expression) syntax, which is a far superior notation for complex
> or dynamically-constructed regexps.
+1

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