There's a whole list of alternative syntaxes here: https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/wiki/Alternative-Regex-Syntax https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/wi

There's a whole list of alternative syntaxes here: https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/wiki/Alternative-Regex-Syntax https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/wiki/Alternative-Regex... I haven't actually used them because generally the right alternative to a regex is a proper parser.