The Regex engine inside SmaCC allows for non-greedy REs. But it's integrated as a parser first stage, not as an independent RE engine. Regards, Thierry Le mar. 5 févr. 2019 à 08:34, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> a écrit :
Hi,
Yes, Pharo regex implementation is very naive. We will be moving to a PCRE binding to match outside world standards but we have not had the time to work on it :(
Esteban
On 5 Feb 2019, at 00:27, Manuel Leuenberger <leuenberger@inf.unibe.ch> wrote:
Hi,
I just noticed that the Pharo regexes do not understand non-greedy matches. A regex engine to be PCRE is kind of essential, not having '.*?' to be a parseable and working regex is a bummer. Are there any more powerful regex engines around for Pharo? I could not find any.
Cheers, Manuel