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mvzr: Minimum Viable Zig Regex

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mvzr: Minimum Viable Zig Regex
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The mvzr library is a Minimum Viable Regex implementation for the Zig programming language. It allows for runtime regex compilation and matching, featuring a simple bytecode-based virtual machine. The library supports various regex operations and character sets while maintaining a lightweight codebase with no external dependencies.

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Canonical URLhttps://github.com/mnemnion/mvzr
Publication timeSat, 30 May 2026 14:40:27 +0000
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mvzr: The Minimum Viable Zig Regex Library Finding myself in need of a regular expressions library for a Zig project, and needing it to build regex at runtime, not just comptime, I ended up speedrunning a little library for just that purpose. This is that library. It's a simple bytecode-based VM, inspired by LPEG. Under 2000 lines of load-bearing code, no dependencies other than std. The provided Regex type allows 64 'operations' and 8 unique ASCII character sets. If you would like more, or less, you can call SizedRegex(num_ops, num_sets) to customize the type.

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