Are Ruby regular expressions PCREs and/or POSIX-compatible basic/extended regexes?
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Please see [The Stack Overflow regular expressions reference](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22937618/reference-what-does-this-regex-mean)! – Unihedron Aug 14 '14 at 18:40
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2Neither - ruby uses Onigmo – Frederick Cheung Aug 14 '14 at 18:45
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Much closer to Perl than POSIX. – mu is too short Aug 14 '14 at 21:52
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Are Ruby regular expressions PCREs and/or POSIX basic/extended regexes?
No, they are Ruby Regexps.
Jörg W Mittag
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