Oniguruma Explained

Oniguruma
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Operating System:	Cross-platform
Genre:	regular expression library

is a free and open-source regular expression library that supports a variety of character encodings written by K. Kosako. The Ruby programming language, in version 1.9, as well as PHP's multi-byte string module (since PHP5), use Oniguruma as their regular expression engine.^[1] It is also used in products such as Atom,^[2] EDK2 UEFI,^[3] GyazMail, Take Command Console, Tera Term, TextMate, SubEthaEdit and jq.

There is also a forked Oniguruma version called "Onigmo" (Oniguruma-mod) which includes some features introduced in Perl 5.10+.^[4] Ruby since version 2.0 has also switched to it^[5] and features have been backported from ruby to Onigmo. Take Command Console since version 20 has also switched to Onigmo.^[6]

See also

• Comparison of regular expression engines

External links

• • Archive of Oniguruma Homepage as of August 7, 2015

Notes and References

1. Web site: 【PHPウォッチ】第6回 PHP5 RC1にPHP4互換モード追加，PHP4.3.5では約140件のバグ修正 . 5 April 2004 . IT Pro . 2008-02-23.
2. Web site: Atom Developer Blog: The Nucleus of Atom. 8 June 2022 .
3. Web site: Oniguruma 6.9.0 in EDK2. .
4. Web site: k-takata / Onigmo - Github. . 2013-06-13.
5. Web site: Merge Onigmo to ruby 2.0.
6. Web site: What's New in Version 20.