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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
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I was a fan of this:

http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/regex.bun

my employees moved me to PCRE at some point but OZ has a talent for writing
really small implementations of useful stuff.  Very early Unix like.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 07:50:57PM -0700, Rich Morin wrote:
> You might want to pick up a used copy of this book, if only as an occasional resource:
> 
> https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Regular-Expressions-Jeffrey-Friedl/dp/0596528124
> 
> -r

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