Re: grep as a library?

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi Albert,

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:16:51PM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:48:20PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > It would be useful to have the main functionality of the "grep" program
> > in a GPLed library. The GNU gettext program "msggrep" needs to call grep
> > hundreds of times for a given 100 KB input file, and users complain that
> > it is slow. It would be faster if msggrep could use a library. It is
> 
> http://www.pcre.org?

pcre is just another regex library, I beleive that isn't the thing Bruno is
speaking about.

Stepan