pcre-light: Portable regex library for Perl 5 compatible regular expressions

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A small, efficient and portable regex library for Perl 5 compatible regular expressions.

The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5.

If installation fails with missing pcre/pkg-config, try installing the libpcre3-dev package (linux) or running brew install pcre pkg-config (macOS).


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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 0.2, 0.2.1, 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.1.1, 0.4, 0.4.0.1, 0.4.0.2, 0.4.0.3, 0.4.0.4, 0.4.1.0, 0.4.1.2, 0.4.1.3
Change log ChangeLog.md
Dependencies base (>=3 && <=5), bytestring (>=0.9) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright (c) 2007-2010. Don Stewart <dons@galois.com>
Author Don Stewart
Maintainer Daniel Casanueva <coding `at` danielcasanueva.eu>
Revised Revision 1 made by DanielDiaz at 2025-02-17T11:47:32Z
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Uploaded by DanielDiaz at 2025-02-16T11:27:58Z
Distributions Arch:0.4.1.2, Debian:0.4.1.0, Fedora:0.4.1.0, FreeBSD:0.4.0.3, LTSHaskell:0.4.1.2, NixOS:0.4.1.2, Stackage:0.4.1.3
Reverse Dependencies 34 direct, 3668 indirect [details]
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pcre-light library

A small, efficient and portable regex library for Perl 5 compatible regular expressions

The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5.

Authorship

This library was originally written by Donald Stewart.