Re: [pcre-dev] RFE -- switch to operate in 'unbuffered mode'…

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Szerző: Philip Hazel
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Címzett: Linda Walsh
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Tárgy: 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.

Philip

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