> They do not only seem pretty much alike. JavaScript uses the same RE as Perl or grep does.

Well technically, they don't. Perl's regexp engine is *far* advanced from that in Javascript (up to version 1.3 at least, 1.5 is a bit better). They all have the same basic features (and in grep's case they're *very* basic, egrep is a little more capable), and sometimes even they aren't standard. But Perl is in a league of it's own when it comes to complex regular expressions and speed. Just check out the Extended Features section under man perlre for many examples of features not available both Javascript and grep.
HTH

broquaint

In reply to Re: Re: Matching an JavaScript object initalizer regex by broquaint
in thread Matching an JavaScript object initalizer regex by Incognito

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