POSIX::Regex ============ This is a port of the glibc gnu regex engine into perl. There are few reasons you would need this. The few I can think of include: 0) You wish to use untrusted user expressions in such a way as to be able to catch errors. Example: eval { alarm 2; m/((){1024}){1024}/ } is an instant uncatchable segmentation fault. GNU's regexps will still fail, but in a timeout way rather than an instant segfault way. 1) You wish to have POSIX compliance on ... something ... Perl's regexps are slightly different -- arguably better, but different. ( ... if you think of anything else, let me know, since reason 0 evaporates under 5.9.3+ ... ) INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: glibc and the gnu regex engine COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE GPL (see pod for further information) Copyright (C) 2006 by Paul Miller