Hi,
On Dec 15, 2006, at 8:36 AM, maxwell@ldc.upenn.edu wrote:
> Since there doesn't seem to be any standard regex syntax (grep,
> sed, etc. all seem to have slightly different views on the issue),
> maybe learning Perl syntax for regex's isn't that bad. I believe
> Python uses the same syntax.
Python does. Also, recent gnu versions of grep support perl-style
regexps using the -P option. For better or worse, perl regexps seem
to have become the standard.
> Besides, none of the standard grep implementations that I know of
> handle Unicode (at least not in any useful way).
Gnu grep 2.5.1 supports Unicode, though I guess it's debatable just
how useful it is. The next version is supposed to be much better on
that front.
--- Rob Malouf <rmalouf@mail.sdsu.edu> Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages San Diego State University
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