Advanced Regexps?

[Bengt Kleberg]

Carl-Johan Kihlbom wrote:
> Is there any way to do advanced regular expressions in Erlang? I've 
> looked at the regexp and gregexp modules, but their implementations of 
> regular expressions are very limited. I would really like to match word 
> boundaries, etc. like you can in Perl et al.

since i do not know perl i would like to ask if you mean that perl has a 
special regexp for matching word boundaries? (ie, not 
[\s]+[a-zA-Z]+[\s]+ , but something else).


bengt