In 1998, Brian Kernighan wanted a regular expression engine small enough to fit on one…
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In 1998, Brian Kernighan wanted a regular expression engine small enough to fit on one page of a programming book. Rob Pike went to his office and came back an hour or two later with roughly 30 lines of C. It supported ^, $, ., and *, using little more than pointers and recursion. Kernighan later featured it in Beautiful Code.
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