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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ is based on Henry Spencer's implementation of advanced regular expressions (ARE) in the Tcl language. This library therefore also provides AREs (see [re_syntax](https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl/TclCmd/re_syntax.html)). +It is a hybrid NFA/DFA design. In contrast to [PCRE](https://www.pcre.org/) terex' stack use cannot grow arbitrarily and it has polynomial worst-case runtime. terex is the regular expression engine used by the [SciTECO](https://sciteco.fmsbw.de) @@ -35,6 +36,8 @@ Compared to hsrex, this library has the following changes: preserve the buffer gap when used in SciTECO. * Check for useful changes in the Tcl codebase. * Check against a proper regular expression test suite. + At the very least, convert `regtest_terex.sh` into an Autotest + suite - but then it will work only with Autoconf. ## Building |