Oniguruma

This project ended on April 24, 2025.

The only open source software attacked on Google search in Japan. (Issue #234)

https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma

Oniguruma is a modern and flexible regular expressions library. It encompasses features from different regular expression implementations that traditionally exist in different languages.

Character encoding can be specified per regular expression object.

Supported character encodings:

ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, EUC-JP, EUC-TW, EUC-KR, EUC-CN, Shift_JIS, Big5, GB18030, KOI8-R, CP1251, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-10, ISO-8859-11, ISO-8859-13, ISO-8859-14, ISO-8859-15, ISO-8859-16

• GB18030: contributed by KUBO Takehiro
• CP1251: contributed by Byte
• doc/SYNTAX.md: contributed by seanofw
• doc/onig_syn_md.c: tonco-miyazawa

Notice (from 6.9.6)

When using configure script, if you have the POSIX API enabled in an earlier version (disabled by default in 6.9.5) and you need application binary compatibility with the POSIX API, specify "--enable-binary-compatible-posix-api=yes" instead of "--enable-posix-api=yes". Starting in 6.9.6, "--enable-posix-api=yes" only supports source-level compatibility for 6.9.5 and earlier about POSIX API. (Issue #210)

Master branch

• Unicode property \pC, \pL, \pM, \pN, \pP, \pS, \pZ

Version 6.9.10

• Update Unicode version 16.0
• Add new operator (*SKIP) (PR#299)
• Fixed: ONIG_SYN_CONTEXT_INDEP_REPEAT_OPS not working for ^* pattern (Issue #292)

Version 6.9.9

• Update Unicode version 15.1.0
• NEW API: ONIG_OPTION_MATCH_WHOLE_STRING
• Fixed: (?I) option was not enabled for character classes (Issue #264).
• Changed specification to check for incorrect POSIX bracket (Issue #253).
• Changed :punct: in Unicode encodings to be compatible with POSIX definition. (Issue #268)
• Fixed: ONIG_OPTION_FIND_LONGEST behavior

Version 6.9.8

• Update Unicode version 14.0.0
• Whole options
  • (?C) : ONIG_OPTION_DONT_CAPTURE_GROUP
  • (?I) : ONIG_OPTION_IGNORECASE_IS_ASCII
  • (?L) : ONIG_OPTION_FIND_LONGEST
• Fixed some problems found by OSS-Fuzz

Version 6.9.7

• NEW API: ONIG_OPTION_CALLBACK_EACH_MATCH
• NEW API: ONIG_OPTION_IGNORECASE_IS_ASCII
• NEW API: ONIG_SYNTAX_PYTHON
• Fixed some problems found by OSS-Fuzz

Version 6.9.6

• NEW: configure option --enable-binary-compatible-posix-api=[yes/no]
• NEW API: Limiting the maximum number of calls of subexp-call
• NEW API: ONIG_OPTION_NOT_BEGIN_STRING / NOT_END_STRING / NOT_BEGIN_POSITION
• Fixed behavior of ONIG_OPTION_NOTBOL / NOTEOL
• Fixed many problems found by OSS-Fuzz
• Fixed many problems found by Coverity
• Fixed CVE-2020-26159 (This turned out not to be a problem later. #221)
• Under cygwin and mingw, generate and install the libonig.def file (Issue #220)

License

BSD license.

Install

Case 1: Linux distribution packages

• Fedora: dnf install oniguruma-devel
• RHEL/CentOS: yum install oniguruma
• Debian/Ubuntu: apt install libonig5
• Arch: pacman -S oniguruma
• openSUSE: zypper install oniguruma

Case 2: Manual compilation on Linux, Unix, and Cygwin platform

1. autoreconf -vfi (* case: configure script is not found.)

2. ./configure

3. make

4. make install

• uninstall

  make uninstall

• configuration check

  onig-config --cflags onig-config --libs onig-config --prefix onig-config --exec-prefix

Case 3: Windows 64/32bit platform (Visual Studio)

• build library

  .\make_win.bat

  onig_s.lib: static link library onig.dll: dynamic link library

• make test programs

  .\make_win.bat all-test

Alternatively, you can build and install oniguruma using vcpkg dependency manager:

1. git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
2. cd vcpkg
3. ./bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
4. ./vcpkg integrate install
5. ./vcpkg install oniguruma

The oniguruma port in vcpkg is kept up to date by microsoft team members and community contributors. If the version is out of date, please create an issue or pull request on the vcpkg repository.

Regular Expressions

See doc/RE or doc/RE.ja for Japanese.

Usage

Include oniguruma.h in your program. (Oniguruma API) See doc/API for Oniguruma API.

If you want to disable UChar type (== unsigned char) definition in oniguruma.h, define ONIG_ESCAPE_UCHAR_COLLISION and then include oniguruma.h.

If you want to disable regex_t type definition in oniguruma.h, define ONIG_ESCAPE_REGEX_T_COLLISION and then include oniguruma.h.

Example of the compiling/linking command line in Unix or Cygwin, (prefix == /usr/local case)

cc sample.c -L/usr/local/lib -lonig

If you want to use static link library(onig_s.lib) in Win32, add option -DONIG_EXTERN=extern to C compiler.

Sample Programs

File	Description
sample/callout.c	example of callouts
sample/count.c	example of built-in callout *COUNT
sample/echo.c	example of user defined callouts of name
sample/encode.c	example of some encodings
sample/listcap.c	example of the capture history
sample/names.c	example of the named group callback
sample/posix.c	POSIX API sample
sample/regset.c	example of using RegSet API
sample/scan.c	example of using onig_scan()
sample/simple.c	example of the minimum (Oniguruma API)
sample/sql.c	example of the variable meta characters
sample/user_property.c	example of user defined Unicode property

Test Programs

File	Description
sample/syntax.c	Perl, Java and ASIS syntax test.
sample/crnl.c	--enable-crnl-as-line-terminator test

Source Files

File	Description
oniguruma.h	Oniguruma API header file (public)
onig-config.in	configuration check program template
regenc.h	character encodings framework header file
regint.h	internal definitions
regparse.h	internal definitions for regparse.c and regcomp.c
regcomp.c	compiling and optimization functions
regenc.c	character encodings framework
regerror.c	error message function
regext.c	extended API functions (deluxe version API)
regexec.c	search and match functions
regparse.c	parsing functions.
regsyntax.c	pattern syntax functions and built-in syntax definitions
regtrav.c	capture history tree data traverse functions
regversion.c	version info function
st.h	hash table functions header file
st.c	hash table functions
oniggnu.h	GNU regex API header file (public)
reggnu.c	GNU regex API functions
onigposix.h	POSIX API header file (public)
regposerr.c	POSIX error message function
regposix.c	POSIX API functions
mktable.c	character type table generator
ascii.c	ASCII encoding
euc_jp.c	EUC-JP encoding
euc_tw.c	EUC-TW encoding
euc_kr.c	EUC-KR, EUC-CN encoding
sjis.c	Shift_JIS encoding
big5.c	Big5 encoding
gb18030.c	GB18030 encoding
koi8.c	KOI8 encoding
koi8_r.c	KOI8-R encoding
cp1251.c	CP1251 encoding
iso8859_1.c	ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1)
iso8859_2.c	ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2)
iso8859_3.c	ISO-8859-3 (Latin-3)
iso8859_4.c	ISO-8859-4 (Latin-4)
iso8859_5.c	ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic)
iso8859_6.c	ISO-8859-6 (Arabic)
iso8859_7.c	ISO-8859-7 (Greek)
iso8859_8.c	ISO-8859-8 (Hebrew)
iso8859_9.c	ISO-8859-9 (Latin-5 or Turkish)
iso8859_10.c	ISO-8859-10 (Latin-6 or Nordic)
iso8859_11.c	ISO-8859-11 (Thai)
iso8859_13.c	ISO-8859-13 (Latin-7 or Baltic Rim)
iso8859_14.c	ISO-8859-14 (Latin-8 or Celtic)
iso8859_15.c	ISO-8859-15 (Latin-9 or West European with Euro)
iso8859_16.c	ISO-8859-16 (Latin-10)
utf8.c	UTF-8 encoding
utf16_be.c	UTF-16BE encoding
utf16_le.c	UTF-16LE encoding
utf32_be.c	UTF-32BE encoding
utf32_le.c	UTF-32LE encoding
unicode.c	common codes of Unicode encoding
unicode_fold_data.c	Unicode folding data
windows/testc.c	Test program for Windows (VC++)