[TRE-general] Re: Streamripper using TRE

[Ville Laurikari]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:17:27PM -0700, Gregory Sharp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just wanted to say hi and introduce myself.  I'm maintainer 
> of streamripper, and streamripper includes your very nice
> TRE library for regular expression parsing.  The user has 
> the choice at configure time of using the native library 
> or TRE (except windows, where the only choice is TRE).

Cool.  POSIX compatible regex matching on Windows is one of the areas
where TRE is most popular.  I would have thought that approximate
matching would be why people use TRE, but it seems that TRE is also
one of the best available regex matchers on Windows.

> I settled on TRE because, based on my research, it appears 
> to be the most portable library that support wide characters.  

I'm interested, what other libraries have you looked at?  I am aware
of quite a few, but it would be nice to hear how you think TRE
compares against specific libraries :-)


-- 
Ville