Re^4: Regex libraries

Thanks

That is very interesting to know. Its good to know that presumably it won´t affect me. Although reading the documentation I couldn´t get much out of it as I wasnt understanding the regexes itself.
Thanks for translating these to me in an understandable language :-)

While testing our software I ran into the mentioned bugs and falsely blamed Boost for that.

Its also interesting to see that Boost and PCRE have quite much in common. The author of Boost made also a statement, why he didnt stick to Perl5 regexes. He based his position on an article by Larry Wall, where Larry states that perl6 will probably have quite huge changes in the regex syntax and so Perl5 hasnt in fact a real standart. Sounds to me like Perl6 is reinventing regex!?

I commit I havent read the article completly yet but do you guys know if there /will be|is/ a book about Perl6 Regex syntax?

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Re^5: Regex libraries by Anonymous Monk on Dec 30, 2004 at 17:49 UTC
The author of Boost is quite right. Perl doesn't have a standard, and regexes in Perl6 will be different (although there's a promise Perl5 style regexes will work as well). Read about the Perl6 regexes in Apocalypse 5: Pattern Matching. There's no book about Perl6 regexes yet - but no doubt O'Reilly or some other publisher is willing to publish one as soon as someone can convince them they could write a good book about them. (Perl publishers will be very happy with Perl6 - it gives them the opportunity to sell their books again).	[reply]
Re^5: Regex libraries by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Dec 30, 2004 at 21:09 UTC
do you guys know if there /will be\|is/ a book about Perl6 Regex syntax? The only book on Perl 6 that I'm aware of is Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials. It gives an overview of the new regexen in chapter 7 (Grammars and Rules). Apart from that, I found the book an interesting read and it's not expensive. For more detail on Perl 6 regex syntax (nowadays called "Rules") see Larry's Apocalypse 5 and TheDamian's Exegesis 5 and Synopsis 5. If you want to play around with Perl 6 Rules today, install TheDamian's Perl6::Rules module.	[reply]