This document describes version 0.4.0-devel.2 of CRE2, a C language wrapper for the C++ library RE2: a fast, safe, thread–friendly alternative to backtracking regular expression engines like those used in PCRE, Perl, and Python.
The latest release can be downloaded from:
development takes place at:
and as backup at:
Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020 by Marco Maggi http://github.com/marcomaggi
Copyright © 2011 by Keegan McAllister http://github.com/kmcallister/
Portions of this document come from the source code of RE2 itself, see the file LICENSE.re2 for the license notice.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with Invariant Sections being “GNU Free Documentation License” and “GNU General Public License”, no Front–Cover Texts, and no Back–Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”.
| • overview | Overview of the package. | |
| • version | Version functions. | |
| • regexps | Precompiled regular expressions construction. | |
| • options | Matching configuration. | |
| • matching | Matching regular expressions. | |
| • other | Other matching functions. | |
| • tips | Tips for using the regexp syntax. | |
Appendices | ||
|---|---|---|
| • Package License | Package license. | |
| • Documentation License | GNU Free Documentation License. | |
| • references | Bibliography and references. | |
Indexes | ||
| • concept index | An entry for each concept. | |
| • function index | An entry for each function. | |
| • variable index | An entry for each variable. | |
| • type index | An entry for each type. | |
This document describes version 0.4.0-devel.2 of CRE2.