Re: regexp matching in svn?

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Johan Corveleyn [mailto:jcorvel_at_gmail.com]
>> Sent: vrijdag 27 januari 2012 16:31
>> To: Subversion Development
>> Subject: regexp matching in svn?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any existing regexp matching functionality somewhere in de
>> svn codebase, in a way that is reusable for new functionality? If not,
>> does anyone know of a reusable third-party library that could be
>> easily intregrated (I know, it would be Yet Another Dependency, but
>> I'm just asking for options ...)?
>>
>> Use-case: I like the '-x-p' (show C-function) option for 'svn diff',
>> but this is limited to C-like syntax. GNU diff also has a '-F RE'
>> option, where RE is a regular expression that is used for matching the
>> "function-line". I know I could make use of this functionality by
>> invoking GNU diff as external diff command, but for several reasons it
>> would be interesting if svn could do this internally (for one thing:
>> GNU diff isn't always available / installed).
>>
>> And I'm sure there would be other useful things people could do with
>> regexp functionality ...
>
> Apr (or Apr-Util) has regex support, not sure which but we require both.

Thanks, but I can't find it. I found apr_strmatch in apr-util, but
that doesn't do regex, it just matches a fixed string (which would
also be useful (it actually covers my concrete use-case), but it's not
-F). Maybe I'm overlooking something.

If it's not in apr(-util) or some other dependency we already have,
how about PCRE (www.pcre.org) ?

-- 
Johan