Re: Regular expressions with glib?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Eike Lange wrote:

> Hi Folks!
>
> I would like to contribute some regular expression code to GLib.
> This code uses "regexec(3)" and "regcomp(3)" to do all the stuff with 
> regular expressions (requires regex.h).
>
> My questions is, whether I should base this code on "GString" or
> "gchar *" (requires string.h)  and if you think this contribution 
> could be useful.
>  
If regular expression support was going to be added to glib, the 
standard library regexp routines probably won't be sufficient, since 
they aren't guaranteed to work with UTF-8 strings (for glib, UTF-8 is 
probably the only encoding worth supporting).

As for whether it should work on (GString *) or (gchar *), I'd go for 
(gchar *).

James.

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