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[Sudheera Palihakkara <catchsudheera@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Sir,

I've been working on this project for the past couple of days. I found that
there are few good regex libraries suitable for this task. Considering the
requirements I think PCRE, ICU regex and RGX would do the job. But ICU
regex doesn't have recursion but it has well-documented easy-to-understand
code. Currently I think PCRE is the best option we can have.

In case of I missed some libraries, I guess you will enlighten me to study
about them too. considering the requirements I didn't see Asian multi-byte
support implemented in anywhere, what would we do about that.?

In the google-melange page, under the application template there is a field
called "Project description", what should I include there.? i mean do you
expect a full description about the project including figures or just a
brief just like in projects ideas page.

Thank you.


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Sudheera!
>
> On Apr 19, Sudheera Palihakkara wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I went through other threads on this topic. In one thread you mentioned
> to
> > choose a suitable regex library.
> >
> > *( Preliminary research - only about chosing a regex library to use in
> > MariaDB. You should be able to explain why we should use this library and
> > not some other one.)
> >
> > *
> > What do you mean by "choosing"? don't we have to enhance the exiting
> regex
> > library? Or choose from exiting already implemented libraries which are
> > free to use? sorry if it's a stupid question, but I'm confused. :O
>
> Enhancing our old regex library to support all modern features and
> multiple charsets is complex and bug-prone work.
>
> I don't see why we should bother doing it, when there are plenty of
> regex libraries available.
>
> There's PHP's mb_regex, there's prce, and many others too. We'd better
> just pick one that works better for MariaDB, and put it instead of
> Henry Spencer's library.
>
> Regards,
> Sergei
>
> P.S. Please, don't reply to me only, use reply-to-all, so that your
> mails appear on the mailing list.
>



-- 
*Sudheera Palihakkara.*
Undergraduate
Department of *Computer Science and Engineering,
*Faculty of Engineering,
*University of Moratuwa*,
Sri Lanka.