Re^2: Parsing and translating Perl Regexes

Despite the name is PCRE ... not compatible , I recommend here reading Friedl's book about Mastering Regular Expressions.

JS' RegEx is based on Perl4, so plenty of things must be excluded.

eLISP RegEx predates Perl (i.e. old POSIX), many escapes are inverted - e.g. \( <-> ( - and since regexes are always strings, any slash must be additionally escaped from string interpolation (leading to so called "slasheritis")

Hope the last 2 phrases were still readable for you.

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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Re^3: Parsing and translating Perl Regexes by wollmers (Scribe) on Nov 05, 2013 at 13:23 UTC
What people name REGEX comes in 3 main dialects: POSIX basic POSIX extended Perl The above also have dialect/implementation variants. And there are the different REGEX-notations used in other sciences like linguistics, which Friedl AFAIR does not include in his book. Helmut Wollmersdorfer	[reply]