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Re: Can I safely use PCRE in wiretap file reader?
From: Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:44:47 -0600
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 01:46:43PM -0400, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
Thanks for the tip! (I had looked at GRegex but worried about older GLib, but version checking is fine with me) BTW, your answer of "yes" means I cannot safely use plain PCRE, or yes I can safely use it?
You can use PCRE instead, but make sure to wrap it in #ifdef HAVE_LIBPCRE (which requires having #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H / #include "config.h" at the top). However, the configure script will prefer GRegex over PCRE (see configure.in). I didn't look carefully at how GRegex was added to Wireshark as someone else committed it, but it sounds like GRegex is preferred and pcre *may* go away some day (probably not anytime soon though). ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Can I safely use PCRE in wiretap file reader? Hadriel Kaplan (Sep 18)
- Re: Can I safely use PCRE in wiretap file reader? Stephen Fisher (Sep 18)
- Re: Can I safely use PCRE in wiretap file reader? Stephen Fisher (Sep 18)
- Re: Can I safely use PCRE in wiretap file reader? Hadriel Kaplan (Sep 18)
- Re: Can I safely use PCRE in wiretap file reader? Stephen Fisher (Sep 18)
- Re: Can I safely use PCRE in wiretap file reader? Hadriel Kaplan (Sep 18)
- Re: Can I safely use PCRE in wiretap file reader? Stephen Fisher (Sep 18)