Re: GPatternSpec

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Scott Wimer wrote:

> Tim,
> 
> I'm thinking that this could be supplanted by the Gregex code that
> I finished recently.  I've still got to autoconf it, but it seems
> to work so far.  Here's the URL:
> http://dev.cgibuilder.com/scottw/code/g_regex/

no, this pattern matching code is intended to feature only "?" and
"*" wildcards, and is highly optimized for performance reasons (it needs
to be executed multiple times per widget creation), we wouldn't want
to use real regexp for that.


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ciaoTJ