REGEX ---> REGEXEC?

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3 total messages Started by Shane West Wed, 18 Jun 1997 00:00

#48

Author: Shane West
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 00:00

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Hiya!

	I'm currently trying to compile some software on a Linux box
that was originally developed on a CT S640 running UNIX System V Release
5.3. The Linux machine is running Slackware Linux 2.0.29. The original 
code included calls to regex and regcmp. I have been told that these 
functions are compatible with linux's regexec and regcomp functions. Is
this information correct? 

I have tried defining regex as regexec etc in the source, it was working
fine until I received the following compiler error:

too many arguments to function 'regexec'

What can I do to fix this problem? 

Any help would be appreciated.
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Re: REGEX ---> REGEXEC?

#49

Author: James Youngman
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 00:00

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westsj@latcs1.cs.latrobe.edu.au (Shane West) writes:

> too many arguments to function 'regexec'
> 
> What can I do to fix this problem? 

Post the surrounding snippet of code?

Re: REGEX ---> REGEXEC?

#50

Author: Scott Anthony Hamilton
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 00:00

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westsj@latcs1.cs.latrobe.edu.au (Shane West) writes:

>Hiya!

>	I'm currently trying to compile some software on a Linux box
>that was originally developed on a CT S640 running UNIX System V Release
>5.3. The Linux machine is running Slackware Linux 2.0.29. The original 
>code included calls to regex and regcmp. I have been told that these 
>functions are compatible with linux's regexec and regcomp functions. Is
>this information correct? 

>I have tried defining regex as regexec etc in the source, it was working
>fine until I received the following compiler error:

>too many arguments to function 'regexec'

>What can I do to fix this problem? 

>Any help would be appreciated.

I recall some time ago having similar problems with these posix regular
expression functions under linux. It was the first time I'd used
them under any platform and the problem turned out to be my misunderstanding
of how they worked. The linux man pages weren't quite clear enough for
these functions, upon reading the Solaris man pages I discovered my errors.

<forwarded info on these funcs to Shane>

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