microregex is a lightweight regular expression library written in C for the Kite programming language (although it is usable for other purposes). It uses Perl syntax with some exceptions:
* No backreferences support.
* No (?...) support.
* The following escapes do not work:
o
o c
o l
o u
o L
o U
o E
o Q
o B
o A
o a
o
o z
o G
Installation:
Since this package uses GNU Autoconf and Automake, installation is a simple matter of running the following:
./configure
make
make check
make install
Total build time should only take a few seconds on any modern machine. For more information, please see the INSTALL file.
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Less memory is used during matching.
· Also, many escapes that exist in Perl regular expressions have been added to microregex.