POSIX::Regex

This is a port of the glibc gnu regex engine into perl. There are few reasons you would need this. The few I can think of include:

0) You wish to use untrusted user expressions in such a way as to be able to catch errors. Example: eval { alarm 2; m/((){1024}){1024}/ } is an instant uncatchable segmentation fault. GNU's regexps will still fail, but in a timeout way rather than an instant segfault way.

You wish to have POSIX compliance on ... something ... Perl's regexps are slightly different -- arguably better, but different.

( ... if you think of anything else, let me know, since reason 0 evaporates under 5.9.3+ ... )

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

glibc and the gnu regex engine

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

GPL (see pod for further information)