RE: glib / String handling difficult[Scanned]

["Robert Thorpe" <Robert Thorpe antenova com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gtk-list-bounces gnome org 
> [mailto:gtk-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Jose Hevia
> Sent: 09 January 2006 11:45
> To: gtk-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: glib / String handling difficult[Scanned]
> 
> 2006/1/9, Juhana Sadeharju <kouhia nic funet fi>:
> >
> > Hello. I have always found string handling quite difficult in C.
> > It also looks like sed, awk, perl etc. cannot handle all of 
> my simple 
> > needs. Glib could be improved.
> 
> I thought the same.

Why is this needed in a graphical toolkit library?
Surely it's more appropriate to do it outside of GTK+.

For what it's worth I think that the problem described here is quite
simple.  You could do it with regular expressions easily.

This means that on platforms that use Glibc such as Linux you can use
the regex library in the glibc.  On other platforms you could use any
other of the many regex libraries that are out there.

You could also use flex or lex, both of which would work fine.

Rob