RE: regexec() trouble

["JK" <johnking@xxxxxxx>]

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

> -----Original Message-----
> 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.