Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Support for PCRE pattern matching in dfilters

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:58:38 -0800

On Dec 2, 2003, at 2:06 PM, Biot Olivier wrote:

Attached patch implements Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in Ethereal
display filters with the "matches" operation. The patch includes all
required autotools gizmos, and libpcre is not required but will be looked
for if available (similar to zlib support).

So if libpcre isn't available, the "matches" operator isn't supported?