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Re:Perl 5.26.0 released by MadcapJake on Thursday June 01, 2017 @11:08AM (#14460861)
Ruby used Oniguruma (and now Onigmo) for RegEx https://github.com/k-takata/Onigmo
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Re:Perl 5.26.0 released by dragonwriter on Thursday June 01, 2017 @12:41PM (#14461884)
Yes (well, for MRI at least; I'm not sure other implemebtations use the same regex engine) and it used a different regex engine before Oniguruma. But engines and syntax are unrelated; Ruby has a dedicated regex literal syntax which was directly inspired by Perl.
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Re:Perl 5.26.0 released by cutler on Thursday June 01, 2017 @01:00PM (#14462090)
As far as I can make out these regex engines are very close to Perl5.
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