Maurice Cinquini wrote:
I recall that are two types of regular expression matching in [9],
"basic" and "extended". You will either need to specify which one,
(e"xtended" I assume) or allow the non-default one with another
attribute like the "case-sensitive" attribute.
Anone some suggestions/comments on that?
You could even go so far as the have a "MatchAlgorithm" attribute
which takes values like "basic" and "extended" and possibly more
options like "glob" (i.e., fnmatch(3)), "prefix", "suffix" or even
"ISO-16262", "perl5". They could also be be done by using a
different attribute names too. E.g.,
While this would allow most flexibility, I'm not sure whether the
benefits would justify the added complexity. Other opinions?
Thanks for these comments!
-Markus