[[ I've modified the subject ]] >>>>> "A" == A M Kuchling <amk / mira.erols.com> writes: A> PCRE might be worth contemplating as a BSD-licensed regular expression A> library, since it provides Perl-compatibility and is fairly readable. A> The pcre_compile() function is pretty hairy, though, but I'm sure A> PCRE's author would accept improvements; he was quite friendly when I A> was adapting PCRE to Python. Two questions about pcre : * how do it compare to GNU regexp in term of rapidity ? * Is it easy to modify it to add support for japanese encoding ? Guy Decoux