Auteur: Philip Hazel Date: À: Linda Walsh CC: pcre-dev Sujet: Re: [pcre-dev] RFE -- switch to operate in 'unbuffered mode' for
use ininteractive pipes
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I use pcre in interactive use more often than not, and
> it's buffering is a pain in a pipe -- only blatting out output after it
> collects a buffer --
Er, sorry, that doesn't make sense. PCRE is just a regex-matching
library. It doesn't do any input/output. You must be using some program
that calls PCRE.
Ah, perhaps you are using pcregrep?
> Could it flush lines after each is processed upon being given a
> To-Be-Added Switch?
I guess something along those lines could be done. Noted. Indeed, when
checking GNU grep I see that it automatically does that, so perhaps
pcregrep should be compatible.
