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Non default replacement (Score:1)

by 2shortplanks (968) on 2002.04.20 18:16 (#7315) Homepage Journal

How hard would it be to make a module that caused all regular expressions lexically to use PCRE rather than the default one?

Just a thought. And secondly, what are the benchmarks like?

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- Re:Non default replacement (Score:1)
  
  by robin (1821)
  
  How hard would it be to make a module that caused all regular expressions lexically to use PCRE rather than the default one?
  
  Doing it lexically would be trickier, because you'd have to either add a new set of OPs for the PCRE versions, or at least a flag for the existing ones. I was thinking it would be more along the lines of use re 'debug'; (which is to say, not lexically scoped).
  The first stage is to write a simple XS interface to PCRE, and then we can do some sensible benchmarks as well.

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