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Date:	Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:59:55 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Regex question (is it broken?)
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In-Reply-To:	<5.0.2.1.0.20010204234757.009f0470@pop3.martysparadox.com>; from marty@martysparadox.com on Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 11:56:29PM -0600

On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 11:56:29PM -0600, Marty wrote:
> 	I installed Cygwin a couple of weeks ago, and I notice that the regex 
> functionality seems broken.  Attached is a test program I cobbled together 
> from various places, just so I could get a handle on using regex 
> properly.  However, while this program compiles properly, it does not 
> execute correctly on either of two machines I've tried Cygwin on (WinNT box 
> and a Win98 box), while compiling this on a Sun/Solaris/etc. unix machine 
> seems to make it work just fine.  I've searched the archives, etc., and 
> cannot find info on this issue.  What's going on??

Did you link with -lregex?

This is needed to get the POSIX regex functionality. The Cygwin internal
regex functions are way older.

Corinna

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