regex syntax missing about sqlean HOT 8 CLOSED

Implemented the new regexp extension for Windows in 0.18.1.

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Thank you very much for adding this extension. I'm thrilled to have the additional syntax available now.

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Not in the near future, I'm afraid. Not ready to bury myself in the regexp engine internals.

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Understood and thank you for the quick response. I had hoped the linked code for the other module could be ported without much extra effort.

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Unfortunately, it could not. I've considered the regexp extension earlier, and found it not suited for substr and replace operations. So the re extension is built on a completely different engine.

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Would not at least some of these be relatively easy?

** \b Word boundary
** \w Word character. [A-Za-z0-9_]
** \W Non-word character
** \d Digit
** \D Non-digit
** \s Whitespace character
** \S Non-whitespace character

Like the \w just gets replaced with [A-Za-z0-9_], \d with [0-9], etc. If not easy, then I understand.

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Not really. Sorry. I'll look into switching the current regexp engine to something more powerful, but the last time I checked, there wasn't one suitable for this project.

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The new regexp extension in 0.18.0 provides much more advanced syntax. Unfortunately, it does not support Windows at the time.

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