Alien::PCRE2(3)

✨ NAME ✨

Alien::PCRE2 — bestie, this is the module that finds, or downloads, or builds, or installs libpcre2 inside PCRE2, which is the new Perl Compatible Regular Expression engine 💖

(Also hi, this is the Alien::PCRE2(3) page, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, in case you were wondering where you wandered into 🫶)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

From a Perl script, okay? Like this:

use Alien::PCRE2;

use Env qw(@PATH);
unshift @PATH, Alien::PCRE2->bin_dir();
system 'pcre2-config';
system 'pcre2grep';

print Alien::PCRE2->dist_dir();

No cap, that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This package can be used by other CPAN modules that require PCRE2 or libpcre2. It's giving helpful. It's giving infrastructure. It's literally the friend who already has the thing you need 🎀

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

William N. Braswell, Jr. <wbraswell@cpan.org>

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💖 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 💖

This software is copyright (c) 2017, 2022 by William N. Braswell, Jr.;

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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okay that's the whole page bestie, go build something iconic 🔥

Signing off from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, in the Alien::PCRE2(3) section of the manual 💜 mwah 🫶