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WireWulf · Joined: 20 Sep 2009 Posts: 98 Location: somewhere

for those who can not rock

Flash · Posted: Mon 23 Nov 2009, 15:04 Post subject:

WireWulf, could you give some idea what this is for; who, or what specific program or piece of hardware, might need it?

jamesjeffries2 · Joined: 27 Apr 2008 Posts: 196

for future reference it is a perl compatible regular expression library. Programmers use it when they want to use perl style regular expressions instead of the style that is used in the GNU C library.

Only thing I've come accross is that depends upon this is Privoxy, but Im' sure there are plenty of others.

jamesjeffries2 · Joined: 27 Apr 2008 Posts: 196

for future reference it is a perl compatible regular expression library. Programmers use it when they want to use perl style regular expressions instead of the style that is used in the GNU C library.

Only thing I've come accross is that depends upon this is Privoxy, but Im' sure there are plenty of others.

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2407 Location: Montenegro

Let's open a topic for every lib and not give explanation Laughing

Maybe he refers to amarok sfs that needs the lib to work on puppy 4.3.x. Just guessing. Razz

Lib is provided there in thread though...