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Re:The quadratic problem nobody fixed by leoc on Monday March 23, 2026 @06:17PM (#47495903)
In my head a regex-like thing of Perl origin is known as a 'perlex'.
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Re:The quadratic problem nobody fixed by MathMonkeyMan on Monday March 23, 2026 @09:48PM (#47497720)
can call it PCRE now
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Re:The quadratic problem nobody fixed by leoc on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @05:39AM (#47500362)
'PCRE' never really caught on broadly, unfortunately.

It seems that Boost actually uses 'perlex' https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_31_0/libs/regex/doc/syntax_... .

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