Re: regex with ada?

[Eric Merritt <cyberlync@yahoo.com>]

> 
> Well if you don't need wildcard support then every
> thing you need
> for that task can be found in one of the standard
> packages ada.strings.fixed,
> ada.strings.bounded or ada.strings.unbounded.  A
> combination of the routines
> index and replace_slice in aloop will do what you
> want.
> 
> If you need wildcards then look at the two regex
> packages that come with Gnat,
> a snobol clone and a unix regex like system.

I am afraid I feel the overwhelming compulsion to
point out the regular expresions are quite allot more
then simply wildcards. That being said, I am glad to
know thier is a gnat extension that supports them.
There my compulsion is sated :)

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