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| author | pierrenn <git@pnn.sh> | 2020-02-28 00:58:56 +0900 |
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| committer | Andrew Gallant <jamslam@gmail.com> | 2020-03-15 09:30:58 -0400 |
| commit | 3a6a24a52ad43d55554240b43e8be989c78e4efe (patch) | |
| tree | cc9ec1892cf446010327f87bb5a3494a81c2e5cb /README.md | |
| parent | aab3d80374d5ba4a926d2928ccd476f99846b312 (diff) | |
cli: add engine flag
This permits switching between the different regex engine modes that
ripgrep supports. The purpose of this flag is to make it easier to
extend ripgrep with additional regex engines.
Closes #1488, Closes #1502
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ increases the times to `2.640s` for ripgrep and `10.277s` for GNU grep. Among other things, this makes it possible to use look-around and backreferences in your patterns, which are not supported in ripgrep's default regex engine. PCRE2 support can be enabled with `-P/--pcre2` (use PCRE2 - always) or `--auto-hybrid-regex` (use PCRE2 only if needed). + always) or `--auto-hybrid-regex` (use PCRE2 only if needed). An alternative + syntax is provided via the `--engine (default|pcre2|auto-hybrid)` option. * ripgrep supports searching files in text encodings other than UTF-8, such as UTF-16, latin-1, GBK, EUC-JP, Shift_JIS and more. (Some support for automatically detecting UTF-16 is provided. Other text encodings must be |