@RL_Dane @benjaminhollon @marcxjo #PCRE was “inspired by” #Perl #RegularExpressions. It was developed as a replacement for the original Spencer #regexp library used by the #Exim mail transfer agent. Although there has been some cross-pollination of features, they’re independent projects with different goals.

#PCRE2 documents some of its differences with Perl here: https://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2compat.html

@perl5

@RL_Dane
#PCRE… isn’t. One of these days I’m going to have to catalog the differences between it and the firepower of a fully armed and operational #Perl #regexp battlestation https://perldoc.perl.org/perlre

@benjaminhollon @marcxjo

@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane @sotolf @smxi Modern #Perl #RegularExpressions are awesomely powerful and can be made eminently readable. https://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut#Part-2:-Power-tools

Ditch the so-called “#PCRE” libraries and embrace the real thing.

#regex #regexp