gEDA-dev: input validation (was: gEDA-user: pcb refdes name restrictions?)

[Dan McMahill]

Carlos Nieves Ónega wrote:
> El mar, 07-11-2006 a las 23:56 +0000, Peter Clifton escribió:

>>The regular expression validation sounds like a really good idea. Any
>>idea which library we can pull in to do it simply? Does glib do regexp?
> 
> 
> I think scheme does it:
> http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/guile/guile_198.html
> 

I haven't been following this thread closely enough but, yes, scheme 
does it.  Take a look in some of the gnetlist backends for examples. 
Also if you need regular expressions in C, take a look in the pcb 
sources.  For example, vendor.c.

-Dan