From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: are Perl regexps well-known enough for command-line use?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:39:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201214203938.GA31896@dcvr> (raw)
I've been thinking a bit about UI/UX for local command-line
tooling, and one thing I've been pondering is exposing Perl5
regexps as a mechanism for filtering
mailboxes/newsgroups/URLs/pathnames, etc...
It ties the UI to Perl5, though PCRE can get pretty close...
NNTP has it's own "wildmat" format in RFC 3977 which we support
(though maybe not 100% completely :x). It's pretty close to
Bourne shell globbing, I think.
Perl's built-in and stdlib glob operators only work on FS paths,
and (as usual) I'm trying to avoid dependencies or Inline::C for
ease-of-installation and disk/bandwidth considerations.
next reply other threads:[~2020-12-14 20:39 UTC|newest]
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2020-12-14 20:39 Eric Wong [this message]
2020-12-15 14:21 ` are Perl regexps well-known enough for command-line use? Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-12-15 20:17 ` Eric Wong
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