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pcre-4.3

Introduction to pcre

The pcre package contains Perl compatible regular expression libraries. These are useful for implementing regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://keihanna.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pcre/pcre-4.3.tar.bz2
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Installation of pcre

Install pcre by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

The pcre package contains the libpcre libraries, pcregrep, pcretest and pcre-config.

Description

pcregrep

pcregrep is a grep that understands Perl compatible regular expressions.

pcretest

pcretest can test your Perl compatible regular expression.

pcre-config

pcre-config is used during the compile process of programs linking to this library.

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