What library functionality would you most like to see in D?
Graham Fawcett
fawcett at uwindsor.ca
Thu Aug 4 09:42:56 PDT 2011
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:50:18 +0000, Mehrdad wrote:
> More powerful regexes (like in .NET).
>
> The current one is pretty much unusable due to lack of support for
> Unicode, and lacks lots of important features (named captures come to
> mind).
Just a thought -- libpcre is a very popular RE library, available under
BSD. It has UTF-8 support, though not support for other Unicode encodings.
Google's pcrecpp wrapper might be a source of inspiration. Would a PCRE
wrapper be suitable for Phobos?
Graham
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