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pcre2

brew install pcre2 v10.47_1 BSD-3-Clause

Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE2) C library for pattern matching with modern API and advanced features.

Why you might care

Provides a more feature-rich and performant regex engine than POSIX regex for applications that need lookahead, named groups, Unicode support, and complex patterns. Used as a build dependency by many CLI tools and libraries (grep variants, text processors) that need sophisticated pattern matching beyond basic regex.

Categories

library regex

Alternatives

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