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pcre-8.45

perl-compatible regular expression library

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Description

The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. PCRE has its own native API, as well as a set of wrapper functions that correspond to the POSIX regular expression API. The PCRE library is free, even for building commercial software.

Package information

Ports path
devel/pcre
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Robert Nagy <robert@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64, m88k, sh

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