ripgrep/grep2/README.md
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libripgrep: initial commit introducing libripgrep
libripgrep is not any one library, but rather, a collection of libraries
that roughly separate the following key distinct phases in a grep
implementation:

  1. Pattern matching (e.g., by a regex engine).
  2. Searching a file using a pattern matcher.
  3. Printing results.

Ultimately, both (1) and (3) are defined by de-coupled interfaces, of
which there may be multiple implementations. Namely, (1) is satisfied by
the `Matcher` trait in the `grep-matcher` crate and (3) is satisfied by
the `Sink` trait in the `grep2` crate. The searcher (2) ties everything
together and finds results using a matcher and reports those results
using a `Sink` implementation.
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grep

This is a library that provides grep-style line-by-line regex searching (with comparable performance to grep itself).