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Created by Edi on: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:27:46 GMT, Last modification: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:27:46 GMT
A portable regular expression library with a syntax compatible with Perl.
| edi@agharta.de | |
| Web site | http://weitz.de/cl-ppcre/ |
| Mailing list | http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/cl-ppcre-devel |
| Version | - |
| Maturity | Mature |
| OS compatibility | |
| ASDF installable | Yes |
| Official Download | http://weitz.de/files/cl-ppcre.tar.gz |
| Mirrored Download | |
| Source code repository |
- It is compatible with Perl. (Well - as far as you can be compatible with a language defined by its ever-changing implementation. As of December 2002, CL-PPCRE is more compatible with the regex semantics of Perl 5.8.0 than, say, Perl 5.6.1 is...:) It even correctly parses and applies Jeffrey Friedl's famous 6600-byte long RFC822 address pattern.
- It is fast. If compiled with CMUCL it outperforms Perl's highly optimized regex engine (written in C) which to my knowledge is faster than most other regex engines around. If compiled with CLISP it is still comparable to CLISP's own regex implementation which is also written in C.
- It is portable, i.e. the code aims to be strictly ANSI-compliant. If you encounter any deviations this is an error and should be reported to the mailing list.
- It is thread-safe. Although the code uses closures extensively, no state which dynamically changes during the scanning process is stored in the lexical environments of the closures, so it should be safe to use CL-PPCRE in a multi-threaded program. Tests with LispWorks and Scieneer Common Lisp seem to confirm this.
- It comes with convenient features like a
SPLITfunction, a couple ofDO-like loop constructs, and aregex-based APROPOS featuresimilar to the one found in Emacs. - In addition to specifying regular expressions as strings like in Perl you can also use S-expressions which obviously is more Lisp-y.
- Is it is fully documented.
- It comes with a BSD-style license so you can basically do with it whatever you want.
Compatible Implementations
Open Genera | Armed Bear Common Lisp | Scieneer Common Lisp | OpenMCL | MCL | ECL | Corman Lisp | CMUCL | SBCL | LispWorks | Allegro Common Lisp
Required by these libraries
cl-gdata | (INCF CL) | cl-uri-templates | evol | DE.SETF.AMQP: a Common Lisp client library for AMQ... | uri-template | CL-WIKI | dso-parse | dso-lex | cl-mediawiki | trivial-irc | Djula | CL-UNICODE | Core Server | cl-selenium | html-entities | HT-AJAX, an AJAX framework for Hunchentoot | cl-perec | cl-wdim | Lisp Blosxom | Clickr & Automatr
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Regular Expression | ASDF installable | BSD
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