gawk-aregex: Approximate regex extension of GNU awk

Version: 1.1.0 , license: GPLv3+
Requires: gawk API 1.1+, gawkextlib, tre


Summary

The gawk-aregex module provides a gawk extension library implementing the aregex API.

Description

2020-09-29
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This is the aregex extension for approximate regex (fuzzy) matching, using the TRE regex library.

You will need the gawkapi.h file from gawk 4.2.1 or later.

You will also need to have the TRE library installed:

  https://laurikari.net/tre/

For documentation, see the man page.

For example usage, see test/aregex.awk.

For further info, see the Github page:

  https://github.com/camwebb/gawk-aregex

Cam Webb <cw@camwebb.info> & Jannick (Github: @jannick0)

Authors

Cam Webb

Documentation


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