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RE: [LUG] Re: Perl

 

Title: RE: [LUG] Re: Perl

>Anton Channing wrote:

>> I understand the way they work.  I presume the MS
>> Regular Expressions are pretty much the same, or work
>> on the same principles as the original?

>They might not use backtracking.
>Steve

... or POSIX character classes.  The MSDN says (so it must be true) that .Net REs are based on Perl 5, but it does not say which version of Perl 5.

Clive
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