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Primarily for the purpose of having an easier starting-point for documentation as this project is displayed on github. Also, added a prominent note to use cl-interpol to help maximize values of "perl compatible".
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# CL-PPCRE - Portable Perl-compatible regular expressions for Common Lisp
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## Abstract
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CL-PPCRE is a portable regular expression library for Common Lisp
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which has the following features:
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* It is **compatible with Perl** (especially when used in conjunction
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with [cl-interpol](http://weitz.de/cl-interpol/), to allow
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compatible parsing of regexp strings).
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* It is pretty **fast**.
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* It is **portable** between ANSI-compliant Common Lisp
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implementations.
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* It is **thread-safe**.
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* In addition to specifying regular expressions as strings like in
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Perl you can also use **S-expressions**.
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* It comes with a
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**[BSD-style license](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)**
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so you can basically do with it whatever you want.
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CL-PPCRE has been used successfully in various applications like
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[BioBike](http://nostoc.stanford.edu/Docs/),
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[clutu](http://clutu.com/),
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[LoGS](http://www.hpc.unm.edu/~download/LoGS/),
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[CafeSpot](http://cafespot.net/),
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[Eboy](http://www.eboy.com/), or
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[The Regex Coach](http://weitz.de/regex-coach/).
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Further documentation can be found in `doc/index.html`, or on
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[the cl-ppcre homepage](http://weitz.de/cl-ppcre/).
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