pcre2

Install command: 
brew install pcre2

Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API

https://www.pcre.org/

License: BSD-3-Clause

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/pcre2.json

Formula code: pcre2.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 10.49
head ⚡️ HEAD

Uses from macOS: bzip2

Binaries: pcre2-config, pcre2grep, pcre2test

GitHub Packages downloads:

Last 30 days1,845,459
Downloads77,631,659
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Analytics:

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Installs178,828522,9632,313,440
Installs (--HEAD)102290
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Build Errors450