Unix Programming - Re: regular expression help using regex.h in c program

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Re: regular expression help using regex.h in c program

bpatton

2007-06-21, 7:23 am

On Jun 20, 10:46 am, Hyuga <hyugaricd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 19, 7:23 am, bpatton <bpat...@ti.com> wrote:
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> This style of regular expression doesn't use perl-style escape
> sequences like \s and \w. Instead there are special character classes
> such as [:space:] that you can use. So for your example the following
> would work: "[:space:]*COMMENT[:space:]*"
> Seehttp://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/re.html

Thanks, works perfectly
That the only documentation I've found for it. man on regex was no
help