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regular expression library

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2017-02-08 · latest 2025-04-24

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    Oniguruma, a popular regex library, is archived, the project "ended"
    story by dgroshev · 2025-04-24 · 2 comments
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    The only open source software "attacked" on Google search in Japan
    story by schaum · 2025-01-03 · 0 comments
  3. …this is the Oniguruma [0] regex library written by K. Kosako. It's also used in Ruby and PHP. [0] https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma
  4. The Oniguruma engine has had named, callable subpatterns for a while: https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/blob/master/doc/RE#L400 Supported (via Oniguruma) in Ruby 2.0.0+, dunno about other languages.
  5. …folding doesn't seem to work for most CJK character encodings though (in my shallow analysis). [1] https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma
    comment by lifthrasiir · 2017-06-19 · in How is Ruby different in Japan?
  6. …this trick[1] if the escape character applies to the whole regexp rather than part of it). [0] https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/blob/1983356862bc3ff795d77... [1] https://github.com/slevithan/xregexp/issues/152
    comment by pygy_ · 2017-02-08 · in Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting