As some of us know, we are not living in a world where all characters are included in the basic 7-bit ASCII character set. The YGrep Search Engine v7.04 improves other previous versions by adding a correct support of the Windows locales as they are defined by the user of the DLL. This mainly mean that "ignore case" options of the routines are now also taking into account the needs of accented letters of the ANSI character set used by Windows.
The sahreware package is immediately available for download.
Registered users have been receiving the upgrade directly from me.
Previous users will notice that there is NO need to re-compile existing code in order to adapt to this new version. The Reference Manual has not even been updated at all for this release.
Version 7.03a is brought to life by the request from some customers to be able to use a full-word match for all of the possible searches. Regular expressions included this possibility. Soundex expressions using the ' ' (or space) character could delimitate words, too. Now, approximative expressions can be defined to allow only full-word matches (addition of a parameter to the CompileAGrep() function). Additionally, soundex expressions have been extended the same way (with the same addition of a parameter to the CompileSGrep() function).
This new v7.03a also corrects a bug in the RGrep() family of routines (bad management of the $ (end-of-line) specification).
Previous users will notice that there is a need to re-compile existing code in order to adapt to the slightly new data structures of AGREPINFO and to the additional parameter of CompileAGrep() and CompileSGrep() (default value should be FALSE). It should not create any difficulty, though.
I have found a few book you may want to buy from Amazon.com.
Mastering Regular Expressions : Powerful Techniques for Perl and Other Tools (Nutshell Handbook) by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl, Andy Oram (Editor), is a very useful document for all users of regular expressions.
Programming Windows by Charles Petzold, is the basic book for anyone willing to program on the Microsoft Operating System. A must-read!
Advanced Windows Programming (Wiley Professional Computing) by Martin Heller, is - by far - my preferred book about writing real Windows applications. It may be a little old, but it still contains all the really important issues.
Some customers have asked for the possibility to get a lifetime upgrade capability (paying once in order to get all subsequent upgardes). This is now possible. For a fee (695 USD or 680 Euros), you can get this lifetime upgradability of your YGrep Search Engine.
As it is not at all handling any date information, the YGrep Search Engine is trivially year-2000 compliant.
This half a joke (at first, I could not imagine any need for stating this), half a need (this Y2K problem starts to become important to my eyes (as a customer, too)). So it may be a little funny, but I confirm that the YGrep Search Engine is Y2K-compliant!
The YGrep Search Engine has been rated 3 stars by ZDnet
But, even nicer, 
(in its software library)
has awarded its
to the YGrep Search Engine
as you can see here!
Thanks to them.
The YGrep Search Engine is a text search library to be used with any kind of Windows application. It provides such unusual features as:
The YGrep Search Engine is also greatly improved other most similar tools by providing outstanding features like:
Based upon the features just described, the YGrep Search Engine appears as a needed library for all those that are developing:
The YGrep Search Engine will improve them to a level that most end-users will find very useful but that the developer may fear to implement because of the complexity of the algorithms involved.
All those applications can benefit from the addition of the search capability of the YGrep Search Engine (and specifically of the regular expressions).
The YGrep Search Engine is truly tested software. It has been widely available and used since 1993. This means that you get a mature library in a stable state rather than a quick-and-dirty bunch of minimal features. Notably, several of the most widely available source code library are bug-ridden to a point that may appear surprising to most programmers.
While some of the capabilties of the YGrep Search Engine may be written by most C/C++ developers, it is often overkill to re-invent the wheel (we have a full set of wheels ready for you :-). Furthermore, you certainly do not want to spend time debugging all this automaton code that you did not look into since you graduated out of the Computer Science course.
The YGrep Search Engine offers a good compromise between performance and usability, where other products may sacrifice all ease-of-use to absolute performance (how do you get that performance if you have to dig into source code before being able to merely search for a string in a file?).
Forget about difficulties in understanding the library interface. Registered users receive actual documentation (not only a few Unix cryptic man pages).
You will also receive actual help direct from the developer using E-mail, phone, or fax at your convenience.
As I am listening to your real needs, you can get a real
If you want to download it, here are a few FTP servers you can use. I only tried to give as much variety as possible in order to avoid bottlenecks. These will be changed in the future to reflect distribution.
This one is the most recent version for WIN32S, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT v4.0.
It is available locally at
YG703W95.ZIP file on Magic
.
If you can't get to it, use the search engine at www.Shareware.Com to look for
all YG703W95 files,
or
all version 7 YGrep.
To get the slightly older version 7.02, you still can try YG702W95.ZIP file on Magic. But be remembered that the latest is the one that solves all the bugs. You should use this old link only if you have specifically problems with the newest (I do not always insure that I am not adding a few!)
The YGrep Search Engine is shareware. It it not Public Domain or Free. See the help file for shareware information and extensive description of the registration steps (including a number of registration sites accepting 800-calls or credit cards). If you cannot find the Help file and its registration forms, use the minimal form file ORDER.DOC and mail it with your payment to the address shown.
If you find the YGrep Search Engine useful, do the decent thing and register! In return you will receive (for a Single User license at 20 USD or 18 Euros):
When you register the full Developper Kit (for 295 USD or 289 Euros), you will ADDITIONALLY receive:
You can also register for a "lifetime" of upgrades for the price of 695 USD or 680 Euros.
Register securely the YGrep Search Engine 
from the PsL-Web (item #11244).
Upgrade from a previous version from the PsL-Web (item #11244).
Register securely the Developer Kit (item #100162) from ShareIt!
Register securely the Single User license (item #123) from Ever-Green.
You can now register online. Just pick your one and click on the following links:
My preferred server is currently the secure one from the Public Software Library (PsL). Just click on the following link:
Register either license from the PsL-Web (item #11244).
You can also register online with ShareIt! (secure server). Just click on the following link:
Register the Single User license (item #100161) from ShareIt!
Register the Developer Kit (item #100162) from ShareIt!
You can also register online with Ever-Green (secure server). Just click on the following links:
Register securely the Single User license (item #123) from Ever-Green.
Register securely the Developer Kit (item #124) from Ever-Green.
Register unsecured the Single User license (item #123) from Ever-Green.
Register unsecured the Developer Kit (item #124) from Ever-Green.
You can also register online with 
RegNet - The Registration Network (secure server). Just click on the following links:
Register securely the Single User license (item #1201) from RegNet.
Register securely the Developer Kit (item #1202) from RegNet.
Register securely either license from a major sales point (DigiBuy).
As you've been patient enough to read down to here, I want to offer you a special bonus. From time to time, people ask for a specific routine I did not provide in the YGrep Search Engine: expansion of wild-chars in the file names.
I found this nice public domain and copyrighted package to those of you interested. It must not be used in commercial applications, but it can be useful.
If you can use it, just grab it (and remember that I do not provide support for it).
Also, we have been making freely available a description of the syntax of the regular expressions that we are using in the YGrep Search Engine.
Some Delphi users have been asking for a more complete package of test files than initially provided in the YGrep Search Engine.
Here is the small Delphi project which was the base of the files YGrepTst.PAS and YGrepInf.PAS you can find in the YGrep Search Engine ZIP files.
If you can use it, just grab it (and remember that I support the Engine, not this specific package).
One caveat:
One simple comment though. This project was made some time ago and it will be necessary to update it with the newest files extracted from the latest ZIP archive (YGrepTst.Pas, YGrepInf.Pas).