What was wrong with the GNU basic regex?
If you're going to write a stripped down string matching syntax more strictly for "regular" text then why bother mentioning perl?
If you're going to write a stripped down string matching syntax more strictly for "regular" text then why bother mentioning perl?
So a bit of an inside joke I guess, but most people familiar with regexes will probably have heard of PCRE, so it's not a terribly obscure reference. I liked it :)