Tuesday, 04/15/03

AGRegex a3 is out, now with support for PCRE 4.0 and all its attendant goodness. UTF8 support got all my attention when I initially noticed PCRE 4, but there were substantial new features I sort of missed, including possessive quantifiers, better building, "[:blank:]", and dozens of lovingly documented minor improvements.

[AGRegex is a fairly pleasant Cocoa wrapper around the extravagently pleasant PCRE library, which provides sexed-up regular expressions to C programmers. "Sexed-up regular expressions" is a dorky way to refer to a powerful pattern matching technique derived from Perl. Pattern matching is a clever way to manipulate textual data. Data is information. Information is power. "First you get the sugar..."]

I should also mention to the nine of you who care that as of 4/14, PCRE 4.2 is out. 4.1 and 4.2 mostly clean up Unicode migration glitches and stamp out compiler warnings, though 4.1 also fixed a rogue optimization that could slow down straightforward matches in megabytes-long target strings -- frankly, I find it cheering that people test PCRE with targets that long. PCRE's bloody great. Thank you, Philip Hazel. 02:07AM «

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