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Onigmo is a regular expressions library forked from Oniguruma.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2017-03-22 · latest 2022-02-01

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  1. > Ruby even supports Perl regular expressions No, Ruby Regexp is based on the https://github.com/k-takata/Onigmo library. There are plenty of differences compared to Perl, for example `^` and `$` anchors always match start/end of lines…
    comment by asicsp · 2022-02-01 · in The Awk state machine parser pattern (2018)
  2. You're probably thinking of PCRE, although Ruby actually uses Onigmo: https://github.com/k-takata/Onigmo
    comment by smitherfield · 2017-06-04 · in Benchmark: Java, Python, PHP, C, JavaScript, Swift, Ruby, Perl, Go, Lua, Rust
  3. Ruby used Oniguruma (and now Onigmo) for RegEx https://github.com/k-takata/Onigmo
    comment by MadcapJake · 2017-06-01 · in Perl 5.26.0 released
  4. …is formally regular expression. I translated the main points of Tanaka Akira's paper very roughly. https://github.com/k-takata/Onigmo/issues/87 I hope this helps you to understand the operator.
    comment by k_takata · 2017-03-27 · in The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby’s Regular Expressions
  5. …interested to work out what the new 'absent operator' in regexes is for and am studying it now: https://github.com/k-takata/Onigmo/issues/82
    comment by petercooper · 2017-03-22 · in Ruby 2.4.1 Released