Oniguruma

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Oniguruma

Original author(s)	K. Kosako
Initial release	February 25, 2002 (2002-02-25)
Stable release	6.9.7  / 14 April 2021; 4 months ago (14 April 2021)[1]
Repository	github.com/kkos/oniguruma
Written in	C
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	regular expression library
License	BSD license
Website	github.com/kkos/oniguruma

Oniguruma (鬼車) by K. Kosako is a BSD licensed regular expression library that supports a variety of character encodings. The Ruby programming language, in version 1.9, as well as PHP's multi-byte string module (since PHP5), use Oniguruma as their regular expression engine.^[2] It is also used in products such as Atom,^[3] EDK2 UEFI,^[4] GyazMail, Take Command Console, Tera Term, TextMate and SubEthaEdit.

There is also a forked Oniguruma version called "Onigmo" (Oniguruma-mod) which includes some features introduced in Perl 5.10+.^[5] Ruby since version 2.0 has also switched to it^[6] and features have been backported from ruby to Onigmo. Take Command Console since version 20 has also switched to Onigmo.^[7]

See also[]

• Comparison of regular expression engines

References[]

External links[]

• oniguruma on GitHub
• Archive of Oniguruma Homepage as of August 7, 2015

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