go-pcre

This package provides Perl-Compatible RegularExpression support in Go using libpcre or libpcre++.

Documentation

Use godoc.

Installation

1. install libpcre3-dev or libpcre++-dev

2. go get

sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev
go get github.com/GRbit/go-pcre/

Usage

Go programs that depend on this package should import this package as follows to allow automatic downloading:

import (
  "github.com/GRbit/go-pcre/"
)

Building your software

Since this package use cgo it will build dynamically linked. If you plan to use this everywhere without libpcre dependency, you should build it statically linked. You can build your software with the following options:

go build -ldflags="-extldflags=-static"

More details on this here

Performance

https://zherczeg.github.io/sljit/regex_perf.html

LICENSE

This is a fork of go-pcre which is fork of golang-pkg-pcre. The original package hasn't been updated for several years. But it is still being used in some software, despite its lack of JIT compiling, which gives huge speed-up to regexps. If you somehow can send a message to the original project owner, please inform him about this situation. Maybe he would like to transfer control over the repository to a maintainer who will have time to review pull requests.