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From: Erik Corry <corry@mjolner.dk>
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Subject: Re: Perl REGEX for BETA?
Date: 16 Jun 2000 13:47:22 -0000
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Hi Sascha Kimmel,

> a small but interesting question:
> when will BETA support Perl Regular Expressions?

We are looking into moving to PCRE
http://computing.ee.ethz.ch/sepp/pcre-3.1-ak.html
which looks like a really neat library.  It's Perl compatible,
in fact I think it's what PHP uses.

Stay tuned!

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Erik Corry corry@mjolner.dk