Subject: bug#40868: Grep C library for multi-string pattern matching?

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 12:19:40 -0700

On 4/26/20 6:58 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> Does Grep provide a library that exposes its multi-string pattern
> matching?

No, and that's partly by design: Grep is GPLed rather than LGPLed. I don't know
of any free library that does anything similar.