Oniguruma
Open-source Library in Programming
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Oniguruma (鬼車) is a free and open-source regular expression library that supports a variety of character encodings, written by K. Kosako. 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, SubEthaEdit, jq, Sublime Text[5] and VS Code[6].
| Oniguruma | |
|---|---|
| Original author | K. Kosako  |
| Initial release | 25 February 2002 |
| Final release | |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | regular expression library |
| License | 2-clause BSD License |
| Repository | |
As of April 26, 2025, development of Oniguruma was stopped and the project was archived.[7]
There used to be also a fork of Oniguruma called "Onigmo" (Oniguruma-mod) which includes some features introduced in Perl 5.10+.[8] Ruby switched to it in version 2.0[9] and features have been backported from Ruby to Onigmo. Take Command Console from version 20 to version 32 used to Onigmo.[10] Take Command switched back to Oniguruma in version 33 as Onigmo is no longer being updated.[11]
