[Oberon] Text search is THE main task.

[Gérard Meunier]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Drake" <jmdrake_98 at yahoo.com>
To: "ETH Oberon and related systems" <oberon at inf.ethz.ch>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Oberon] Text search is THE main task.

> So did you try RX?  That's the package I was
> "describing".  Regul is simply another regular
> expressions package.  I think Regul has some
> nice features and is much better than what you've
> described, but you're entitled to your opinion.
> Anyway if you look in RX.Tool you will see that
> RX has a "Grep" command.  As it is designed it
> will allow you to return all of the lines from
> a particular file that fits a search pattern.
> It would be trivial to extend it to search
> mulitple files.

The module RegulFindApi is an API for Regul that one can use to program his
own application. So it is possible to search regular expressions from any
data flow. The module is self-documented.

Cheers.

Gérard