oniguruma ☆

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Description:
Regular expressions library

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: library regex c unicode development

Install: brew install oniguruma

About:
Oniguruma is a modern, regular expressions library that provides a rich set of features including named groups, recursion, and Unicode support. It is designed as a highly configurable and feature-rich alternative to the standard PCRE library. The library is widely used by applications like PHP and Ruby for advanced pattern matching capabilities.

Key Features:

Support for advanced regex features like named groups and recursion
Highly configurable matching behavior and character encodings
Excellent Unicode support including properties and scripts
Modular and lightweight C library design

Use Cases:

Implementing complex pattern matching in C/C++ applications
Providing the regex engine for programming languages and frameworks
Parsing and processing text with advanced Unicode requirements

Alternatives:

PCRE2 – PCRE2 is another powerful regex library; Oniguruma offers similar features with a different API and is known for its configurability.
RE2 – RE2 prioritizes safety and linear time execution, sacrificing some advanced features like backreferences that Oniguruma supports.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 10, 2025 7:04pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	65550324
Jan 1, 2025 12:07pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	9a736c03