Perl Compatible Regular Expressions 10.44 💾

PCRE is a widely used Unicode-compatible regular expression engine. It implements Perl5 regex syntax and semantics, some Python, .NET and Onigurama extensions. It uses just-in-time compilation, has consistent escaping rules, and allows for recursion, assertions and conditional patterns or complex subroutines and callouts, thus goes far beyond classic regular expressions.

minor bugfix: This is mostly a -and tidying release. There is one new function, to set a maximum size for a compiled pattern. The maximum name length for groups is Increased to 128. Some auxiliary files for building under VMS are added.

BSDL c regex pcre perl


UniversalCodeGrep 0.2.1

UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code. It is intended to be largely command-line compatible with Ack, to some extent with ag, and where appropriate with grep. Search patterns are specified as PCRE regexes.