[fpc-pascal] fast text processing

[Vincent Snijders]

Bee schreef:
>> If you just want to show off, the easiest is simply making a FPC 
>> header to
>> pcre, it might be useful even.
> 
> Making a header on top of other libraries written by other languages is 
> showing that FPC is lack of powerful units/libraries. For some 
> particular cases maybe it's alright. For example header over OS API, or 
> over Apache, or over widgetsets (gtk, qt, wince, etc), or other common 
> and huge libraries. But for basic or simple task like text processing, 
> IMO we should provide it by ourselves (fpc). Maybe we should write our 
> own pascal regex library that is more powerful than pcre, or at least 
> equal. That way we could be more "independent". ;)
> 

To give you a head start, check out:
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk/packages/base/regexpr/

It needs testing and fixing.

Vincent