This ocaml-library interfaces the pcre (perl-compatibility regular expressions) c library. it can be used for matching regular expressions which are written in perl style.

compared with the ocaml standard library "str" module, this library:
* uses perl style rather than emacs one
* is reentrant and thus thread safe
* is faster (when compiled to native code is even faster than
perl regular expressions)
* returns data on which you can safely use destructive updates
* gives more "programming comfort" through a better api
this package contains only the shared runtime stub libraries.