Show HN: Picomatch – A tiny C library for evaluating regular expressions

3 beariish 0 6/20/2025, 2:02:27 PM github.com ↗

Hi! I wrote this over a couple afternoons after wanting to embed regex into another project I'm working on, and found most implementations to either be far too big a dependency or lacking too many features.

It's not very fast, it's (probably) not very correct.. but if you have a C standard library availible, this is an option now :)

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