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bug#40868: Grep C library for multi-string pattern matching?
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Bruno Haible |
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bug#40868: Grep C library for multi-string pattern matching? |
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Date: |
Tue, 22 Sep 2020 04:19:06 +0200 |
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> Does Grep provide a library that exposes its multi-string pattern
> matching? If not, can someone recommend an implementation?
I don't know exactly what you mean, but the GNU grep algorithms are
used as a library in GNU gettext:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=tree;f=gettext-tools/libgrep
Although in hindsight, I don't know whether using simply a regex would not
have been just as good.
Bruno