Not to say I take either view.

I know you were just trying to make(1) a joke, but PCRE is not really perl regexes at all (it's from the language who's name I dare not speak)

Huh???, You are wrong mistaken. PCRE is in fact a stand alone project that had nothing to do with the PHPatchwork other than PHP decided to use lpcre since they couldn't find a shell script to do it. PCRE was in fact created as a Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library for C

pcre.org

I'll resist the urge to be a pedant, and say that I never mentioned PHP, and skip right on to ++brig for telling me stuff I didn't know.

I do enjoy a bit of software history...

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