Re: [tcljava-user] Jacl 1.3 changes in regexp/regsub

[Mo D. <md...@un...>]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:39:28 +0200
Joe Weisblatt <jwe...@ci...> wrote:

> Some of my scripts have broken in the transition to Jacl 1.3.2.  I note 
> the regexp/regsub is a new implementation.
> Is this supposed to be exactly compatible with the old patterns?

The current Jacl regexp implementation works like Tcl regexps did before
the regexp rewrite in the 8.1 or 8.2 days.

> Where is the documentation for the new commands?

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.0/TclCmd/regexp.htm

> Specifically:
>     regexp {<.*>} {abc<def>ghi}
> will successfully match the "<def>", but
>     regexp {<\w*>} {abc<def>ghi}
> doesn't.
> 
> Any pointers?  Is "\w" no longer supported?  Seems [:alpha:] didn't work 
> either.

No, those don't work. Those used to work in older version of Jacl only
because the regexp package that was included in older versions supported
it. But that ORO regexp package was binary only and was causing license
problems for Jacl so it had to be replaced.

cheers
Mo DeJong