[fpc-pascal] regex vs synregexpr unit

[Bihar Anwar]

On June 6, 2010 3:06:06 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> I have looked into this as well, about 2 months ago. From my initial
> research it seems the regex unit included with FCL is not as
> feature-complete as the one in SynEdit.

On June 6, 2010 3:54:53 PM, Juha Manninen wrote:
>I also chose SynEdit for Lazarus Delphi converter for some reason.
>I think it was the first hit when searching "regexp" from Lazarus
>code base. It works well. I would guess the others work well too.

Thanks Graeme and Juha for the information.

On June 6, 2010 3:54:53 PM, Juha Manninen wrote:
>Please remember that if speed is really an issue for your application
>then you must forget regexp and make your own pascal code to parse
>the string.

Speed is important to me, but reg-expr features is important as well.
Actually, I want to include reg-expr as an alternative search mode in
my general-purpose file search unit.