I'm in need of PCRE functionality for my regular expressions in Java. I've been unable to find such a library. What is an extended library (Hopefully including more of the PCRE constructs and extends of vanilla java.util.regex.Pattern capabilities)?
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Hmm… could you address libpcre via JNI? Sure, absolutely utterly evil and unportable and unidiomatic…– mirabilosDec 23, 2014 at 16:57
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I have found JRegex. It seems to include the set of syntax from Perl5.6 regular expressions (Version 8 perlre), with special syntax for named backreferences and in-pattern comments. However it is not very reliable and runs into infinite loops in typical zero-length matches, which is unfortunate.