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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.
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.