regex-opt mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• regex-opt

Projektgeschichte

Joel Yliluoma, also known as Bisqwit, wrote regex-opt as a GPL-licensed optimizer for Perl-compatible regular expressions. The official archive documents releases spanning 2004 through 2017.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The official release archive shows a small, long-lived command-line utility distributed as source tarballs rather than a large framework. Homebrew subsequently made it convenient to install on macOS.

Wie es verwendet wird

Run regex-opt with a regular expression as its argument; it prints an optimized expression. Because anchors, capturing semantics, Unicode-specific markup, and several advanced constructs are unsupported or transformed, users should check compatibility before substituting its output in production patterns.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

regex-opt is an unusual single-purpose Unix-style filter: it transforms a regular expression into a generally shorter equivalent expression. Its explicit catalogue of supported and unsupported syntax also makes its optimization boundaries inspectable.

Zeitleiste

• 2004: Version 1.0.0 appeared in the official release archive
• 2005–2007: The 1.1 and 1.2 release series expanded the utility
• 2012: Version 1.2.3 was published
• 2017: Version 1.2.4 was published

Related projects

• Perl-compatible regular-expression engines
• GNU make
• Homebrew

Quellen

• https://bisqwit.iki.fi/source/regexopt.html