Is there any way to embed egrep and wget in my application ?

Question

hello all i need in my application the feathers that the good old egrep and wget give me , but i can't execute them as separate process i need them as embedded functions in my application is there any way to do that ? cross platform and c++

Answer 1

Judging from this mailing list entry, wget is probably not available in library form currently:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00431.html

Answer 2

For getting wget functionality you could use libcurl.

Answer 3

You can use a regular expressions library. Boost::Regex is a common option. A less portable option for now is the Visual C++ Feature Pack or the Dikumware TR1 implementations, which already come with regular expressions support. Finally you can search google for "C++ regular expressions" and you should be offered with other options.