Regular expressions that work "everywhere"

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Author: ColinWright

Date: 6/25/2026

Article Summary:
The article discusses the frustration of regular expression implementation variations across different tools and proposes a subset of regex features that work "everywhere" including sed, awk, grep, and Emacs.