[cmake-developers] slow regex implementation in RegularExpression

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 16 November 2011, Alexandru Ciobanu wrote:
> Hi Brad,
...
> Advantages of TRE:
>   - API very similar to standard regex.h (i.e. easy to integrate with
> CMake) - supports wide characters
>   - compiles on many platforms Windows, AIX, HP-UX, you name it.
> 
> What do you think about TRE?

http://laurikari.net/tre/about/
BSD licensed, gcc, IBM, HP; Sun compilers supported, also MSVC, including 
version 6.

So from that side it looks good.

Docs for the supported syntax:
http://laurikari.net/tre/documentation/regex-syntax/

Alex