John Meacham wrote:
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:19:34PM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
bulat.ziganshin:
Hello Donald, btw, what will be really useful now, imho, is the interface to Text.Regex. how about working on it as next stage?
This is already done actually, here: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/lambdabot/Lib/Regex.hsc http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/hmp3/Regex.hsc
I have a regex interface to PCRE and some neat typeclass tricks to give you perls (=~) operator but much more powerful here.
http://repetae.net/john/computer/haskell/JRegex/
It would be nice to get a PCRE binding in the libraries if it is available.
if there is interest in including this in the fptools libraries I can revisit and clean-up/modernize the code.
Actually yes, I did intend to replace/extend Text.Regex with JRegex at some point. Plus we can include PCRE, since it has a BSD license - maybe it can replace the POSIX regex implementation that we have in GHC right now (which was taken from FreeBSD's libc). I imagine doing this as part of the library reorg we have planned for 6.6. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/710 Cheers, Simon