Other good thing of Perl is that it can be embeded in anything. Take a look at perlemb and other CPAN modules that have codes for that, like PAR, LibZp, PLJava, PLDelphi. So you will be able to call Perl REGEXP directly from your app.

Also you can take a look at http://www.pcre.org/, where we have "PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions", that is C libray with only Perl REGEXP to be embeded in other applications (this is what PHP and Java uses).

By gmpassos.