how to make portable regex ?

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Published on 2010-05-16T09:54:24Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 10:00 UTC
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Which features of regular expressions are standard, and which are idiosyncratic ?
What should I do, and not do, if I want to use the same regex in different context, languages, platforms ?

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