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| author | Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-01-19 22:30:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-01-19 22:30:50 +0000 |
| commit | 05d342470432c109e81a6d44220976be09a22ba9 (patch) | |
| tree | 54008b456231d8140501726eefc3cb7ea39bb39c /devel/pcre/pkg-descr | |
| parent | dd6ac8e6c8900e46b9c0192e0c2c02fcda4ab2fa (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | devel/pcre/pkg-descr | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/devel/pcre/pkg-descr b/devel/pcre/pkg-descr index 076ccbf0cc4a..3452393637de 100644 --- a/devel/pcre/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/pcre/pkg-descr @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -PCRE is a Perl-compatible library of regular expressions. -They are based on a completely separate code-base from Henry -Spencer's originals. The library has been designed to make -efficient use of memory for compiled regular expressions. +The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression +pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5, with just +a few differences. The current implementation corresponds to Perl 5.005. +PCRE is used by many programs, including Exim, Postfix, and PHP. -Original Author: Phil Hazel <ph10@cam.ac.uk> +Written by: Phil Hazel <ph10@cam.ac.uk> -WWW: http://www.pcre.org/ +WWW: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pcre/ |