Oniguruma

(Japanese)

(c) K.Kosako, updated at: 2013/04/04

What's new

• 2013/04/04: Version 5.9.4 released.
• 2007/08/16: Version 4.7.1 released.
• 2007/06/20: Version 2.5.9 released.
• 2007/06/20: Maintainer of 2.x was changed.

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Oniguruma is a regular expressions library.
The characteristics of this library is that different character encoding
for every regular expression object can be specified.
(supported APIs: GNU regex, POSIX and Oniguruma native)

Supported character encodings:
ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE,
EUC-JP, EUC-TW, EUC-KR, EUC-CN,
Shift_JIS, Big5, GB18030, KOI8-R, CP1251,
ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5,
ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-10,
ISO-8859-11, ISO-8859-13, ISO-8859-14, ISO-8859-15, ISO-8859-16
(GB18030 encoding was contributed by KUBO Takehiro)
(CP1251 encoding was contributed by Byte)

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License: BSD license. Platform:

• Unix (include Mac OS X)
• Cygwin
• Win32

Download:

• Latest release version 5.9.4 (2013/04/04) Change Log
• 5.9.3 (2012/10/26)
• Latest release version 4.7.1 (2007/08/16) Change Log
• 4.7.0 (2007/06/18)
• Latest release version 2.5.9 (2007/06/20) Change Log

Maintainer of 2.x was changed to Hannes Wyss <hwyss AT ywesee.com>.
About 2.x, please contact him.
* 5.x supports Unicode Property/Script.
* 2.x supports Ruby1.6/1.8.

Documents: (version 5.9.4)

• Regular Expressions(Japanese: EUC-JP)
• Oniguruma API(Japanese: EUC-JP)

Sample Programs:

• example of the minimum
• example of the variable syntax and meta character (SQL-like pattern match)

Site Links:

• FreeBSD ports
• SoftAntenna > Lib > Oniguruma (Japanese page)

Links:

• AIX Open Source Packages
• Arch Linux Package
• bregonig.dll (Win32) (Japanese page)
• cnRegex 4D Plugin (Mac OS X) (Japanese page)
• CocoaOniguruma
• crowbar (Japanese page)
• Darwin Ports (Mac OS X)
• Delphi interface (Win32) (Japanese page)
• Ensemble (Mac OS X) (Japanese page)
• FaEdit (Win32) (Japanese page)
• GHC patch Masahiro Sakai (Japanese Blog)
• GyazMail (Mac OS X)
• J-cref v3 (Japanese page)
• Jedit X (Mac OS X)
• Lhaz (Win32) (Japanese page)
• LimeChat (Japanese page)
• meDB (Japanese page)
• Mona OS
• mongoose (Japanese page)
• mregexp (Japanese page)
• Ochusha (Japanese page)
• OgreKit (Mac OS X) Regular Expression Framework for Cocoa (Japanese page)
• OnigRegexp (Japanese page)
• Oniguruma for Ruby
• Oniguruma-mysqld
• OnigPP (Japanese page)
• Onigsed (Win32) (Japanese page)
• oregexp Erlang binding
• yagrep (Win32) (Japanese page)
• Japan PHP User Group PHP 5.0 mb_ereg (Japanese page)
• Pufui (Mac OS X) (Japanese page)
• q2ch (Japanese page)
• re-engine-Oniguruma
• RSSTyping (Japanese page)
• ruby-win32-oniguruma (Japanese page)
• SevenFour (Mac OS X) (Japanese page)
• Stork Lab. Products (Mac OS X) (Japanese page)
• TeraTerm (Win32)
• TiddlyWikiPod (Mac OS X)
• TunesTEXT (Mac OS X)
• oniguruma-visualworks
• XML parser
• YokkaSoft (Win32) (Japanese page)
• Zed (Win32) (Japanese page)

References:

• Ruby Reference Manual Regexp (Japanese page)
• Perl regular expressions
• java.util.regex.Pattern (J2SE 1.4.2)
• The Open Group
• Mastering Regular Expressions
• Unicode Home Page
• Regular expressions memo (Japanese page)
• Regular expressions technique (Japanese page)

and I'm thankful to Akinori MUSHA.

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Other Libraries:

• Boost.Regex
• A copy of Henry Spencer's
• GNU regex
• PCRE
• re2c
• T-Rex
• TRE
• Joni (Java)
• JRegex (Java)
• gnu.regexp for Java
• Jakarta Project Regexp
• Jakarta Project ORO
• Oniguruma for Java