# Oniguruma

(c) K.Kosako, updated at: 2007/01/09

What's new

- 2007/01/09: Version 5.5.2 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

Download:

- Latest release version 5.5.2 (2007/01/09) Change Log
- 5.5.1 (2006/12/22)
- 5.5.0 (2006/12/06)
- Latest release version 4.5.1 (2006/11/17) Change Log
- 4.5.0 (2006/11/06)
- Latest release version 2.5.8 (2006/11/08) Change Log
- 2.5.7 (2006/07/28)

* 5.x supports Unicode Porperty/Script.
* 5.x is unrelated to Ruby. Don't use 5.x as a built-in regexp of Ruby.
* 4.x supports Ruby1.9.
* 2.x supports Ruby1.6/1.8. (Maintenance was finished by the end of 2006.)
Documents: (version 5.5.2)

- 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)

Links:

- Oniguruma in RAA (Ruby Application Archive)
- FreeBSD ports
- SoftAntenna > Lib > Oniguruma (Japanese page)
- bregonig.dll (Japanese page)
- cnRegex 4D Plugin (Mac OS X) (Japanese page)
- new script language crowbar (Japanese page)
- 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 v2 (Japanese page)
- Jedit X (Mac OS X)
- Lhaz (Japanese page)
- LimeChat (Japanese page)
- mregexp (Japanese page)
- Ochusha (Japanese page)
- OgreKit (Mac OS X) Regular Expression Framework for Cocoa (Japanese page)
- OnigRegexp (Japanese page)
- Oniguruma / FireBird (Win32)
- 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)
- RSSTyping (Japanese page)
- Ruby
- ruby-win32-oniguruma (Japanese page)
- SevenFour (Mac OS X) (Japanese page)
- Stork Lab. Products (Mac OS X) (Japanese page)
- TeraTerm
- TextMate (Mac OS X)
- TiddlyWikiPod (Mac OS X)
- TunesTEXT (Mac OS X)
- XML parser
- YokkaSoft (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)
- "Text Processing" Lecture documents (Tanaka Akira) (Japanese page)

and I'm thankful to Akinori MUSHA.

Other Libraries:

- Boost.Regex
- PCRE
- A copy of Henry Spencer's
- re2c
- T-Rex
- TRE
- gnu.regexp for Java
- Jakarta Project Regexp
- Jakarta Project ORO

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