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Re: URL parsing

From: Mohun Biswas <m_biswas_at_mailinator.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:40:42 -0400

codemastr wrote:
> The problem with this approach is, it is not portable. MSVC++, for example,
> does not have regex. So it would fail. So you'd need to include a GNU regex
> lib with your program, which I doubt most people want to do. It also relies
> on header files that are not available everywhere.
>
> It's a nice idea, but it's not very portable.

PCRE (http://www.pcre.org/) is portable to Windows/Mac/Unix and has an
unrestricted license.

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Received on 2004-04-20