Oniguruma

What's new

2018/04/17: Version 6.8.2 released.

2018/03/19: Version 6.8.1 released.

2018/03/16: Version 6.8.0 released.

2018/01/26: Version 6.7.1 released.

2017/12/11: Version 6.7.0 released.

2017/08/30: Version 6.6.1 released.

2017/08/28: Version 6.6.0 released.

2017/08/03: Version 6.5.0 released.

2017/07/03: Version 6.4.0 released.

2017/05/29: Version 6.3.0 released.

2017/04/08: Version 6.2.0 released.

2016/12/11: Version 6.1.3 released.

Oniguruma is a regular expressions library.
The characteristics of this library is that different character encoding
for every regular expression object can be specified.
(supported APIs: GNU regex, POSIX and Oniguruma native)

Supported character encodings:
ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE,
EUC-JP, EUC-TW, EUC-KR, EUC-CN,
Shift_JIS, Big5, GB18030, KOI8-R, CP1251,
ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5,
ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-10,
ISO-8859-11, ISO-8859-13, ISO-8859-14, ISO-8859-15, ISO-8859-16
(GB18030 encoding was contributed by KUBO Takehiro)
(CP1251 encoding was contributed by Byte)

License: BSD license.

Platform:

Unix (include Mac OS X)
Cygwin
Win32

Maintainer of 2.x was changed to Hannes Wyss <hwyss AT ywesee.com>.
About 2.x, please contact him.
* 5.x supports Unicode Property/Script.
* 2.x supports Ruby1.6/1.8.
Documents: (version 6.1.0)

Regular Expressions (Japanese: EUC-JP)
Oniguruma API (Japanese: EUC-JP)
Sample Programs:

example of the minimum
example of the variable syntax and meta character (SQL-like pattern match)
Site Links:

FreeBSD ports
SoftAntenna > Lib > Oniguruma (Japanese page)
Links:

AIX Open Source Packages
Arch Linux Package
bregonig.dll (Win32) (Japanese page)
cnRegex 4D Plugin (Mac OS X) (Japanese page)
CocoaOniguruma
crowbar (Japanese page)
Darwin Ports (Mac OS X)
Delphi interface (Win32) (Japanese page)
Ensemble (Mac OS X) (Japanese page)
FaEdit (Win32) (Japanese page)
GHC patch Masahiro Sakai (Japanese Blog)
GyazMail (Mac OS X)
J-cref v3 (Japanese page)
Jedit X (Mac OS X)
Lhaz (Win32) (Japanese page)
LimeChat (Japanese page)
meDB (Japanese page)
Mona OS
mongoose (Japanese page)
mregexp (Japanese page)
Ochusha (Japanese page)
OgreKit (Mac OS X) Regular Expression Framework for Cocoa (Japanese page)
OnigRegexp (Japanese page)
Oniguruma for Ruby
Oniguruma-mysqld
OnigPP (Japanese page)
Onigsed (Win32) (Japanese page)
oregexp Erlang binding
yagrep (Win32) (Japanese page)
Japan PHP User Group PHP 5.0 mb_ereg (Japanese page)
Pufui (Mac OS X) (Japanese page)
q2ch (Japanese page)
re-engine-Oniguruma
RSSTyping (Japanese page)
ruby-win32-oniguruma (Japanese page)
SevenFour (Mac OS X) (Japanese page)
Stork Lab. Products (Mac OS X) (Japanese page)
TeraTerm (Win32)
TiddlyWikiPod (Mac OS X)
TunesTEXT (Mac OS X)
oniguruma-visualworks
XML parser
YokkaSoft (Win32) (Japanese page)
Zed (Win32) (Japanese page)
References:

Ruby Reference Manual Regexp (Japanese page)
Perl regular expressions
java.util.regex.Pattern (J2SE 1.4.2)
The Open Group
Mastering Regular Expressions
Unicode Home Page
Regular expressions memo (Japanese page)
Regular expressions technique (Japanese page)

and I'm thankful to Akinori MUSHA.

Other Libraries:

Boost.Regex
A copy of Henry Spencer's
GNU regex
PCRE
re2c
T-Rex
TRE
Joni (Java)
JRegex (Java)
gnu.regexp for Java
Jakarta Project Regexp
Jakarta Project ORO
Oniguruma for Java