> -----Original Message----- > From: gtk-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxx > [mailto:gtk-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Juhana Sadeharju > Sent: 11 January 2006 13:31 > To: gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: glib / String handling difficult[Scanned] > > >From: "Robert Thorpe" <Robert.Thorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > >Why is this needed in a graphical toolkit library? > >Surely it's more appropriate to do it outside of GTK+. > > glib *is* outside of gtk...? Well, GTK+ depends on it. So if you use GTK+ then you must link to glib. As far as I'm concerned glib is for GTK+, but I suppose it could be used for other things. > >the regex library in the glibc. > > I don't remember now why it failed for me, but I tried. If you tell me whats wrong then I could probably help. There are many useful libraries for text matching, eg. :- Regex in glibc Henry Spencers regex http://arglist.com/regex/ PCRE regex http://www.pcre.org/ There is also flex. Rob _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list