# The devel/ocaml-pcre port

## ocaml-pcre-7.0.2p0 – OCaml Perl-compatible regexp library

## Description

    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.

WWW: https://bitbucket.org/mmottl/pcre-ocaml/

Categories:
  devel textproc

## Library dependencies

- devel/pcre

## Build dependencies

- lang/ocaml
- sysutils/findlib
- sysutils/findlib

## Run dependencies

- lang/ocaml