1libgnuregex is the regex subset of Gnulib, the GNU portability library. The 2regex subset offers an extension of the regex(3) API to allow more flexibility 3in the flavor of regular expressions. libgnuregex also enhances POSIX 4regular expressions with more features and shorthand, such as: 5 6- \b and \B (word boundary, not word boundary) 7- \s and \S ([[:space:]], [^[:space:]]) 8- \w and \W ([[:alnum:]], [^[:alnum:]]) 9- \` and \' (beginning of subject, end of subject) 10 11WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/ 12