From 553b437d3835764f260df43c74b2e50dacda9c54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergei Golubchik Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:07:55 +0100 Subject: 8.36 --- pcre/README | 18 ++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'pcre/README') diff --git a/pcre/README b/pcre/README index 88f2dfd4efd..e30bd0fd5b7 100644 --- a/pcre/README +++ b/pcre/README @@ -45,14 +45,16 @@ the 16-bit library, which processes strings of 16-bit values, and one for the 32-bit library, which processes strings of 32-bit values. The distribution also includes a set of C++ wrapper functions (see the pcrecpp man page for details), courtesy of Google Inc., which can be used to call the 8-bit PCRE library from -C++. +C++. Other C++ wrappers have been created from time to time. See, for example: +https://github.com/YasserAsmi/regexp, which aims to be simple and similar in +style to the C API. -In addition, there is a set of C wrapper functions (again, just for the 8-bit -library) that are based on the POSIX regular expression API (see the pcreposix -man page). These end up in the library called libpcreposix. Note that this just -provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE; the regular expressions themselves -still follow Perl syntax and semantics. The POSIX API is restricted, and does -not give full access to all of PCRE's facilities. +The distribution also contains a set of C wrapper functions (again, just for +the 8-bit library) that are based on the POSIX regular expression API (see the +pcreposix man page). These end up in the library called libpcreposix. Note that +this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE; the regular expressions +themselves still follow Perl syntax and semantics. The POSIX API is restricted, +and does not give full access to all of PCRE's facilities. The header file for the POSIX-style functions is called pcreposix.h. The official POSIX name is regex.h, but I did not want to risk possible problems @@ -988,4 +990,4 @@ pcre_xxx, one with the name pcre16_xx, and a third with the name pcre32_xxx. Philip Hazel Email local part: ph10 Email domain: cam.ac.uk -Last updated: 17 January 2014 +Last updated: 24 October 2014 -- cgit v1.2.1