Re: Unicode regular expressions

From: Mark Davis (mark.edward.davis@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 16 2009 - 13:44:04 CST

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    Andy updated the ICU User guide on that point:
    http://userguide.icu-project.org/strings/regexp

    Mark

    On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 19:40, Daniel Ehrenberg <microdan@gmail.com> wrote:

    > I'm working on adding some level of UTS 18 conformance to my regular
    > expression library. I was wondering if there are any existing regexp
    > libraries which are conformant beyond level 1. Java's regexp library
    > claims to be level 1 conformant, but ICU's regexp library doesn't even
    > mention UTS 18 in its documentation, and doesn't appear to support
    > intersection of character classes. I'm wondering about how regular
    > expressions can be implemented efficiently in the presence of features
    > like . matching graphemes rather than code points. Can anyone point me
    > to an existing implementation of regular expressions which is level 2
    > compliant?
    >
    > Dan
    >
    >



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