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by leoc 95 days ago
In my head a regex-like thing of Perl origin is known as a 'perlex'.
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MathMonkeyMan 95 days ago
can call it PCRE now
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leoc 94 days ago
'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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