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Pure OCaml regular expressions, with support for Perl and POSIX-style strings

Is ocaml/ocaml-re beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, ocaml/ocaml-re merged 17 of 20 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.

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260
Forks
70
Open beginner issues
1
Indexed issues
19
Avg merge
10h 45m
Merged PRs (30d)
114
Dominant language
OCaml
License
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Last GitHub push
Aug 10, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 19, 2026
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  • Re.Str.regexp doc lists back-references, which raise Not_supported
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    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

    ocaml/ocaml-re#729 ·

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  • Re.Pcre parse error
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ocaml/ocaml-re#200 · 2 comments ·

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  • Please add a warning that Re.Str is not thread safe
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ocaml/ocaml-re#194 · 2 comments ·

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  • Suggestion: Printing the Regexes
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ocaml/ocaml-re#193 · 1 comment ·

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  • `witness` looks buggy
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ocaml/ocaml-re#177 · 2 comments ·

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  • Split on first occurrence of a pattern
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ocaml/ocaml-re#140 · 1 comment ·

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  • Negation in Regular Expressions
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ocaml/ocaml-re#73 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Vim style regular expressions
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    ocaml/ocaml-re#32 ·

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  • [Feature Request] Unicode support
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ocaml/ocaml-re#24 · 9 comments · 2 reactions ·

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