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Subject: Re: Easiest way to use redular expressions?
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On Sunday, December 27, 2020 at 12:14:48 PM UTC+1, briot.e...@gmail.com wrote:
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> Nowadays, I think it would be better to write a small binding to the pcre library (which has quite a
> simple API, so the binding should not be too hard).

About "should not be too hard", if you mean a low level binding then I agree - given the wonders of `gcc -fdump-ada-spec`.
However, IMO the low level binding is quite ugly and cumbersome to use.
The tough part is to make a thick binding that is comfortable for Ada programmers.

> This binding would be a nice small project for someone who wants to get started with writing
> Ada bindings 

There are some questions attached:
- Target pcre or pcre2 ?
- Support all three character sizes UTF-8/16/32 ? In separate packages?

Oliver