Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-users] search for string in data?

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:52:12 +0200
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:07:29PM -0500, Gerald Combs wrote:
> > IOW, I'm looking for something like
> > 	$date =~ /mystring/;

> Does anyone know of any regular expression libraries that
>   Are portable across the platforms Ethereal runs on,
>   Are fast, and
>   Support matches against data types that the average Ethereal user would 
>   need, such as hexadecimal values?

Please let me add perl re compatible syntax.

Duck and cover

         Jörg


PS: IIRC there is a gnu package named rx, but I don't know whether it
  matches any of the conditions mentioned above.

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Joerg Mayer                                          <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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