Regular expressions are endemic in Unix: shell (globbing) text editors (emacs, vi) pagers (less, more) file searching tools (grep, egrep, sed) programming languages (Tcl, Perl, C, Awk, Lex, Python,...) However there is no standard (library) used!
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