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List:       jakarta-regexp-user
Subject:    RE: gnu regexp comparison
From:       Millington Roger <roger.millington () barclaycard ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-10-18 8:41:12
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I strongly endorse this opinion. In my opinion, the regexp bugs reported in
this forum by myself and others are serious enough to rule it out for
professional use.

At this time my favorite is regex4j from IBM. I used the GNU regex for
several years but a few months ago I did a comparison of five Java regex
packages and found that regex4j  out performed all the rest. If, due to
licensing reasons, I can't use regex4j then I use ORO.

Roger Millington

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Daniel Parker 
> Sent:	17 October 2001 08:11
> To:	regexp-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject:	Re: gnu regexp comparison
> 
> Well, I would strongly recommend that that decision be reviewed!
> 
> There are good regular expression packages available but jakarta regexp is
> not one of them.  It cannot pass even minimal regression suites.  Have a
> look at jakarta ORO instead, at http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/index.html.
> 
> regex from ibm is also good, at
> http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/regex4j,
> but it's not open source (their site says they now have "new, unsupported
> licenses for internal use and distribution.")
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel Parker
> http://presentingxml.sourceforge.net/
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Gelderbloem" <peter@generator.co.za>
> To: <regexp-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 3:59 AM
> Subject: Re: gnu regexp comparison
> 
> 
> > it has been decided that the jakarta regexp package is standard for my
> > project
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jon Stevens" <jon@latchkey.com>
> > To: <regexp-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 7:48 PM
> > Subject: Re: gnu regexp comparison
> >
> >
> > > on 10/15/01 3:08 AM, "Peter Gelderbloem" <peter@generator.co.za>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > hi
> > > > i used gnu regexp and want to start using jakarta regexp....
> > >
> > > I'm curious. Why?
> 


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