Re: Glimpse and partial matching.

[Sam Tregar <sam@tregar.com>]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Golda Velez wrote:

> The main problem with doing a lot of literal exec's (and the reason glimpse
> does most of its work internally) is cpu time.  Does egrep have a lib
> interface?  

I don't know that egrep has a lib interface, but the other one I mentioned
- PCRE definitely does.  PCRE stands for Perl Compatible Regular
Expressions.  It's a library that provides an API for C programs to use
Pelr regexes.  The Perl regex engine is the most full-featured and one of
the fastest.

I bet it would be a big project to convert glimpse to PCRE, but the
potential benefits are large.

-sam