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An alternate regex engine (posix regex like in grep) for perl5.8 and below
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README
POSIX::Regex
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This is a port of the glibc gnu regex engine into perl. There are few reasons
you would need this. The few I can think of include:
0) You wish to use untrusted user expressions in such a way as to be able to
catch errors. Example: eval { alarm 2; m/((){1024}){1024}/ } is an instant
uncatchable segmentation fault. GNU's regexps will still fail, but in a timeout
way rather than an instant segfault way.
1) You wish to have POSIX compliance on ... something ... Perl's regexps are
slightly different -- arguably better, but different.
( ... if you think of anything else, let me know, since reason 0 evaporates under 5.9.3+ ... )
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires these other modules and libraries:
glibc and the gnu regex engine
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
GPL (see pod for further information)
Copyright (C) 2006 by Paul Miller
