Regular Expressions in LabWindows/CVI

[SteveD123]

The regular expression instrument included in CVI appears to be fairly primitive. The range of options listed in CVI2017 help for  RegExpr_FindPatternInText  is just a small subset of common capabilities (for instance https://www.cheatography.com/davechild/cheat-sheets/regular-expressions/ or http://www.rexegg.com/regex-quickstart.html).

Are there any alternative options? Preferably at low cost, because justifying any spend to my boss after the CVI maintenance fee will be difficult.

Are there any plans to upgrade the native CVI regular expression parser?

[Jattie]

The easiest way is to download the binaries and execute them from cvi using the system commands. You can show and hide them as you like.

Alternatively you can download and integrate the source. It's more work but can be done.

<http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/regex.htm>

Personally I just use the binaries and call them from CVI.