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### 10.3 Regular Expression Matching

The GNU C Library supports two interfaces for matching regular expressions. One is the standard POSIX.2 interface, and the other is what the GNU C Library has had for many years.

Both interfaces are declared in the header file `regex.h`. If you define `_POSIX_C_SOURCE`, then only the POSIX.2 functions, structures, and constants are declared.