README
1POSIX::Regex
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4This is a port of the glibc gnu regex engine into perl. There are few reasons
5you would need this. The few I can think of include:
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70) You wish to use untrusted user expressions in such a way as to be able to
8catch errors. Example: eval { alarm 2; m/((){1024}){1024}/ } is an instant
9uncatchable segmentation fault. GNU's regexps will still fail, but in a timeout
10way rather than an instant segfault way.
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121) You wish to have POSIX compliance on ... something ... Perl's regexps are
13slightly different -- arguably better, but different.
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16( ... if you think of anything else, let me know, since reason 0 evaporates under 5.9.3+ ... )
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18INSTALLATION
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20To install this module type the following:
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22 perl Makefile.PL
23 make
24 make test
25 make install
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27DEPENDENCIES
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29This module requires these other modules and libraries:
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31glibc and the gnu regex engine
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33COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
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35GPL (see pod for further information)
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37Copyright (C) 2006 by Paul Miller
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