3 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop[maildropl] Re: Regular expressions.
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Ramy M. HassanJun 28, 2002 3:45 pm 
Sam VarshavchikJun 28, 2002 4:09 pm 
Derrick 'dman' HudsonJun 28, 2002 10:10 pm 
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Subject:[maildropl] Re: Regular expressions.Actions...
From:Derrick 'dman' Hudson (dm@dman.ddts.net)
Date:Jun 28, 2002 10:10:39 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 07:09:34PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: | Ramy M. Hassan writes:

| >first I thought that maildrop do regcomp/regexec, but I found that | >maildrop has its own regular expression implementation. I just wonder why | >? isn't | | Because recomp/regexec is not available everywhere.

I was also curious why maildrop has it's own unique regex sub-language rather than using existing POSIX or Perl-compatible libraries. For example, Philip Hazel's libpcre is quite good (or so I've heard -- I've only done regex work at a high level).

-D

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