RE: regexec() trouble

Scott,

 Yup - that was it. Works great when compiled as 'extended'. Many thanks for
the explanation - I was concentrating on the syntax and didn't even think
about compiler options... 

JK

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 5:59 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: regexec() trouble


Ooops... I have to correct one thing in my last post. You also have to
treat { and } differently in a BASIC regular expression. They need to bre
preceded by backslashes. So, if you want to use REG_BASIC, your pattern
has to look like this:

^[A-Z0-9._%-][A-Z0-9._%-]*@[A-Z0-9.-][A-Z0-9.-]*\.[A-Z]\{2,4\}$

I had forgotten about the backslashes in my previous post.

With an extended RE, you don't need to add the backslashes, and your
original pattern should work just fine.  Clearly, that pattern was
intended to be an extended expression.

For more info on RE's, see the following page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

The "Syntax" section has some info on the differences between basic and
extended regular expressions.