# Which Regular Expression engine and syntax is used by Mp3tag?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/which-regular-expression-engine-and-syntax-is-used-by-mp3tag/47713
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**Created:** [January 30, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/which-regular-expression-engine-and-syntax-is-used-by-mp3tag/47713 "2020-01-30T10:39:48Z")
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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/which-regular-expression-engine-and-syntax-is-used-by-mp3tag/47713/4 "2020-01-30T11:20:26Z")

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I'm not using Perl (as the Perl engine) in Mp3tag — it's all C++. As regular expression engine I'm using Boost.Regex which has a perl regular expression syntax.

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