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Perl Compatible Regular Expressions

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PCRE stands for Pearl Compatible Regular Expression. Developed for Pearl, PCRE is much richer than standard Regex which is why it has been adopted by many modern programming languages. PCRE's systax is much more predictable and easier to use than extended POSIX Regular expression.

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