Skip to content

pcre2

Popular
Formula Development v10.47

Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API

When to use

Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API. Use pcre2 when you want a widely used development command-line package that can be installed and updated through Homebrew. It is one of FastBrew's top packages by Homebrew installs, with about 2.5M installs over the last year.

Install 1 App in Terminal
$
brew install 'pcre2'
Source: homebrew/core Website Homebrew
Install Statistics 10.5% vs 90d

Install activity across time periods

Metric 30 Days 90 Days 1 Year
Total Installs 195.3K 654.5K 2.5M
Avg Daily Installs 6.5K 7.3K 6.8K

Related Development Apps

View All
openssl@3
Popular

Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit

formula Development v3.6.2
ca-certificates
Popular

Mozilla CA certificate store

formula Development v2026
sqlite
Popular

Command-line interface for SQLite

formula Development v3.53.1
node
Popular

Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment

formula Development v26.0.0
pkgconf
Popular

Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

formula Development v2.5.1
git
Popular

Distributed revision control system

formula Development v2.54.0
X