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authorph10 <ph10@6239d852-aaf2-0410-a92c-79f79f948069>2015-01-05 16:02:11 +0000
committerph10 <ph10@6239d852-aaf2-0410-a92c-79f79f948069>2015-01-05 16:02:11 +0000
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README file for PCRE2 (Perl-compatible regular expression library)
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-PCRE2 is a re-implementation of the original PCRE library with an entirely new
+PCRE2 is a re-working of the original PCRE library to provide an entirely new
API. The latest release of PCRE2 is always available in three alternative
formats from:
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ The PCRE2 APIs
PCRE2 is written in C, and it has its own API. There are three sets of
functions, one for the 8-bit library, which processes strings of bytes, one for
the 16-bit library, which processes strings of 16-bit values, and one for the
-32-bit library, which processes strings of 32-bit values. As this is a new API,
-there as yet no C++ wrappers.
+32-bit library, which processes strings of 32-bit values. There are no C++
+wrappers.
The distribution does contain a set of C wrapper functions for the 8-bit
library that are based on the POSIX regular expression API (see the pcre2posix
@@ -816,4 +816,4 @@ The distribution should contain the files listed below.
Philip Hazel
Email local part: ph10
Email domain: cam.ac.uk
-Last updated: 24 November 2014
+Last updated: 05 January 2015