Regular Expressions in C

Question

I\'m curious, does anybody know a good way to do regular expression matching in C? The only way I can think of is through Flex. Is this the only way or is there a better w

Answer 1

Uh ... The best way is to

#include 

That is the POSIX standard API for regular expressions.

For non-POSIX systems, rolling your own is one alternative, a basic regex engine is not too hard to accomplish. I'm sure there are off-the-shelf solutions too, I haven't neded one.

Come to think of it, I think glib has one.