Re: [Chicken-users] adding a "standard" regexp engine?

[Michele Simionato]

On 7/7/06, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> A general question to all list members:
>
> The multiude of regex engines is both a pain for building and
> using chicken, as the regex-flavors are never quite the same
> and handling the different cases gets tedious quickly.
>
> What do others think about adding one regex library for
> alll platforms? It must be BSD licensed. Currently there
> are two candidates which look interesting:
>
> - PCRE
> - Oniguruma (very powerful, but also very big)
>
>
> cheers,
> felix

I vote for PCRE, which is the one used by Python, IIRC.

                   Michele Simionato