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.
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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.
pcregrep is a grep that understands Perl compatible regular expressions.
pcretest can test your Perl compatible regular expression.
pcre-config is used during the compile process of programs linking to this library.