19 Sep
2005
19 Sep
'05
4:24 p.m.
From: "John Maddock" <john@johnmaddock.co.uk>
Not sure what to do about "\\<" and "\\>", though.
Sigh, yes it's a legacy from BSD style expressions, and probably shouldn't be enabled for Perl style expressions, they're just so useful though, and more efficient and precise than \b.
They are most definitely handy. I used them regularly with grep and vi (usually viper mode in emacs, but still). xpressive could include them as an extension, right? -- Rob Stewart stewart@sig.com Software Engineer http://www.sig.com Susquehanna International Group, LLP using std::disclaimer;