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This OCaml-library interfaces the PCRE (Perl-compatible regular expression) library which is written in C. it can be used for matching regular expressions which are written in the PERL style. It is reentrant - and thus thread safe. This is not the case with the "Str" module of OCaml, which builds on the GNU "regex"-library. Using reentrant libraries also means more convenience for programmers. They do not have to reason about states in which the library might be in. The high-level functions for replacement and substitution, all implemented in OCaml, are much faster than the ones of the "Str"-module. In fact, when compiled to native code, they even seem to be significantly faster than those of PERL.
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This OCaml-library interfaces the PCRE (Perl-compatible regular expression)
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library which is written in C. it can be used for matching regular expressions
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which are written in the PERL style.
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It is reentrant - and thus thread safe. This is not the case with the "Str"
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module of OCaml, which builds on the GNU "regex"-library. Using reentrant
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libraries also means more convenience for programmers. They do not have to
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reason about states in which the library might be in.
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The high-level functions for replacement and substitution, all implemented
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in OCaml, are much faster than the ones of the "Str"-module. In fact, when
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compiled to native code, they even seem to be significantly faster than
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those of PERL.
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