A Perl regular expression component

The aim of this component is to use the libpcre shared library to allow Gambas to use Perl compatible regular expressions, so that we can do searching or even replacing.

I could do like I did in the gb.eval component: class and objects in the component plus a Gambas routine, Eval, that loads automatically the component if used.

That would be really, really cool! Would it be possible to use Perl-like regexps in the LIKE operator? -- NelsonFerraz

I have started a gb.pcre component. As I write this, it only has one class (Regex) with one property (Offset) indicating the position of your match, if any. But it does work and soon I will have all the substring matching stuff in there. You can download the latest version (until I get it stable) as a tarball from http://www.kudla.org/rpm/. -- RobKudla - 30 Sep 2004