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+This is the source code repository for RE2, a regular expression library.
+
+For documentation about how to install and use RE2,
+visit http://code.google.com/p/re2/.
+
+The short version is:
+
+make
+make test
+make install
+make testinstall
+
+Unless otherwise noted, the RE2 source files are distributed
+under the BSD-style license found in the LICENSE file.
+
+RE2's native language is C++.
+An Inferno wrapper is at http://code.google.com/p/inferno-re2/.
+A Python wrapper is at http://github.com/facebook/pyre2/.
+A Ruby wrapper is at http://github.com/axic/rre2/.