Why isn't there a regular expression standard?

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Published on 2010-05-10T21:48:54Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 21:54 UTC
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I know there is the perl regex that is sort of a minor de facto standard, but why hasn't anyone come up with a universal set of standard symbols, syntax and behaviors?

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