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haneefmubarak
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The Power of PCRE Regular Expressions (2012)
Part of it may be that "pee cee are eey" (or less commonly, "picker", "picker eey", etc.) doesn't really sound as nice as "regex".
Also, PCRE
does
stand for "Perl Compatible Regular Expression".
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Also, PCRE does stand for "Perl Compatible Regular Expression".