On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 05:58:31PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote:
[...] > > Note that regular expressions come in slightly different flavours. > > Going by Kate's documentation [1] on this topic they seem to be > > PCRE or a variant thereof. > > > > Cheers > > > > [1] > > https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/katepart/regular-expressions.html > > Err, did you notice the bit in that reference that says: "It documents > regular expressions in the form available within KatePart, which is not > compatible with the regular expressions of perl"? Note that PCRE stands > for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions. Thanks for pointing that out. I missed that (I searched for PCRE in the page), so my assessment was due to cursory eyeballing (that's why I wrote "seem to be...". And note PCRE is not Perl's regexps, but just "inspired by". They converged and diverged over their respective histories. To get an idea of the current situation, perhaps [2] is relevant. Cheers [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCRE#Differences_from_Perl -- t >
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