Suggestion: `RegExSearchB` - binary (null allowed, lines are not a concept) regexes

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It would be helpful to pass a string or char[] buffer to a hypothetical RegExSearchB or RegExMatchB to be treated as binary, not textual, content. Thus the concept of lines would not exist (LF would not have special meaning), and . would match on any byte. I imagine that the length of the buffer would have to be passed as an argument to this new

Right now I have to work around by changing \x00 to \x01 in a loop before running the regex.

I use a regex to detect packet headers in a property list streaming protocol I’m reverse engineering. This is a heuristic until I figure out what the structural metadata that I’m skipping means.

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This is interesting an we’ll take a look. By the way, you can prepend ‘(?m)’ to any regular expression to force any ‘.’ to match a newline character. We should probably have a built-in function to automatically convert an array of bytes to a regular expression string.

Graeme
SweetScape Software