regex-posix

POSIX Backend for "Text.Regex" (regex-base)

Version on this page:0.96.0.1@rev:2
LTS Haskell 24.24:0.96.0.2
Stackage Nightly 2025-12-19:0.96.0.2
Latest on Hackage:0.96.0.2

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Christopher Kuklewicz
Maintained by Andreas Abel
This version can be pinned in stack with:regex-posix-0.96.0.1@sha256:d479ca2cc6274c15801169f83dae883c9b62b78af3c7b30ed3fbd4b4612156b8,2969

Module documentation for 0.96.0.1

Used by 4 packages in nightly-2023-07-15(full list with versions):
cabal-install, regex-compat, snap-core, test-framework

The POSIX regex backend for regex-base.

The main appeal of this backend is that it's very lightweight due to its reliance on the ubiquitous POSIX.2 regex facility that is provided by the standard C library on most POSIX platforms.

See also https://wiki.haskell.org/Regular_expressions for more information.

Changes

For versioning policy, see: http://pvp.haskell.org/faq

0.96.0.1 (2021-07-19)

  • Compatibility with base-4.16 (GHC 9.2)
  • Fix stack installation problems on Windows around flag _regex-posix-clib (issues #4 and #7).

0.96.0.0 Revision 2 (2021-02-20)

  • Compatibility with base-4.15 (GHC 9.0)

0.96.0.0 Revision 1 (2020-03-25)

  • Compatibility with base-4.14 (GHC 8.10)

0.96.0.0 (2019-09-30)

  • Update to regex-base-0.94.0.0 API
  • Compatibility with base-4.13.0
  • Remove internal regex C implementation