Both a blessing and a curse --

I'm used to using regex in Perl, or other apps using PCRE, but I have to do work in IDL ... and they have what they claim to be regex support, but it lacks:

• Non-greedy quantifiers
• lookahead / lookbehind assertions
• all of the zero-width assertions other than $ and ^
• \w, \d, \s, etc.
• non-capturing parenthesis

So ... anyway, not all regex are created equal -- Perl regex good ... IDL regex is a steaming pile.