Implement support for Regex filtering of strings.

[KelSolaar]

Hi,

Follow-up of the email thread: I was looking at using stringsext to scrape paths in binary files, however, piping the output to grep for example, is very slow for large files, e.g. 25Go, I was thinking that having native Regex filtering of the found strings would maybe help here instead of piping a torrent of data via stdout.

Cheers,

Thomas

[getreu]

having native Regex filtering of the found strings

There is a trade-off between speed and flexibility. As I understood, your main use-case is to scan quickly for path strings in binary data. The new Stringsext version 2 has some support for this, try:

stringsext --grep-char=47 input.raw