Show HN: GNU Grep as a PHP Extension

Category: library

Tags: php-extension, text-processing, pattern-matching

Score: 7.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 9, Utility: 5)

This project embeds GNU grep's matching engine as a native PHP extension written in C, providing direct access to grep's powerful pattern matching capabilities from PHP without shelling out to the CLI. It's interesting because it bridges a mature Unix tool's internals with PHP's runtime while maintaining extensive CLI flag parity and offering structured output.

Target audience: backend devs

Repository: https://github.com/hparadiz/ext-gnu-grep · C · NOASSERTION

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