Source: php-composer-pcre Section: php Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian PHP PEAR Maintainers Uploaders: David Prévot Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-sequence-phpcomposer, phpab, phpunit Standards-Version: 4.6.1 Homepage: https://github.com/composer/pcre Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/php-team/pear/php-composer-pcre Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/php-team/pear/php-composer-pcre.git Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: php-composer-pcre Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${phpcomposer:Debian-require} Recommends: ${phpcomposer:Debian-recommend} Suggests: ${phpcomposer:Debian-suggest} Replaces: ${phpcomposer:Debian-replace} Breaks: ${phpcomposer:Debian-conflict}, ${phpcomposer:Debian-replace} Provides: ${phpcomposer:Debian-provide} Description: ${phpcomposer:description} This library gives you a way to ensure `preg_*` functions do not fail silently, returning unexpected `null`s that may not be handled. . It also makes it easier to work with static analysis tools like PHPStan or Psalm as it simplifies and reduces the possible return values from all the `preg_*` functions which are quite packed with edge cases. . This library is a thin wrapper around `preg_*` functions with some limitations. If you are looking for a richer API to handle regular expressions have a look at rawr/t-regx instead. . Composer helps you declare, manage and install dependencies of PHP projects, ensuring you have the right stack everywhere.