Re: [MacPerl] Perl Shared Library (was Re: [MacPerl] ports and builds)

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 10.41 -0500 1999.01.18, Matthew Langford wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Erik Ableson wrote:
>
>> Now that would be an awesome tool - I'd love to be able to use CodeWarrior
>> to design my applications and UI with the ability to call Perl routines to
>> handle a pile of my data munging as it's so much faster and easier than
>> doing the same task in C (or pascal or basic or fortran...).
>
>I've been thinking about how cool it would be to have just the Perl regexp
>string search in a C/C++ library.  I'd like to do /^([^"])/$1 yeah/ using
>any syntax that works on C and Pascal strings.  This would make string
>handling in those language SO much easier!

The general way to do that is to embed libperl.  You could also just use
the perl source and write your own C regex library.  Someone might have
even done that already.

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