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Life & fun · June 1, 2017

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Wregex – How Regular Expression Engines Work

Werner's home on the Web

Wregex – How Regular Expression Engines Work launched on June 1, 2017 with 19 votes, #785 of 3,107 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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In plain words

This is Werner's personal website featuring documentation tools and educational projects. It includes d.awk, an AWK script that extracts Markdown-formatted documentation from source code comments in languages like C, C++, and Java. The site also documents wregex, a regular expression engine written in 2007 and later cleaned up for GitHub. The site serves as a portfolio for coding projects and technical writing about software development.

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From the sources

Here I present a d.awk 1 , an AWK script to generate documentation from Markdown -formatted comments in C, C++, JavaScript, Java and C# and any other language that uses the /* */ comment syntax. /** * My Project * ========== * * This is some _Markdown documentation_ in a * `source file`. */ int main ( int argc , char * argv []) { printf ( "hello, world" ); return 0 ; } wregex - How Regular Expression Engines Work 2017/06/01 Tags: code In 2007 I wrote a regular expression engine that I called wregex . I’ve now cleaned up the code and placed it on GitHub . This essay is a description of how it is implemented. I think that if you understand the concepts you will never be puzzled…from wstoop.co.za

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