My Problem is, if it is reasonable to convice my boss to implement a full Perl compatible Regex library?

Maybe, maybe not. But how should we know? It would entirely depend on what kind of regexes you need. It's kind of hard to convince your boss to assign resources to adding PCRE to your product because "it has lookahead" when you yourself haven't found a lot of uses for it.

The last thing you should do to have Perl been accepted on the workfloor is to act like a zealot. If Perl is needed, it will come. But if it can be done with Boost, and Boost is faster, then I wouldn't push for anything else - unless I have arguments of my own.

In reply to Re: Regex libraries by Anonymous Monk
in thread Regex libraries by Schuk

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