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author Barry J. Grundy2014-11-14 03:38:11 +0100
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+Lightgrep is a new regular expression engine, designed specifically for digital
+forensics. Why another regexp engine?
+
+Lightgrep:
+
+ - searches for many patterns simultaneously
+ - searches binary data as a stream, not as discrete lines of text
+ - searches for patterns in many different encodings; give it dirty data,
+ lightgrep don't care
+ - never, ever, ever, never, never looks at a byte twice or backs up in your
+ input
+
+Lightgrep is still pretty new and doesn't have all the regexp features you
+might be used to. But it has enough features to be more than a toy, and what
+is supported is well-tested.