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regex-guard/regex-guard
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A wrapper that allows you to validate regular expressions and handle normally uncatchable PCRE compilation warnings

1.1.0(11y ago)24509.2k↓11.7%8MIT

Since Aug 8Compare

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###  Health Score

40

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FairBetter than 88% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity44

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community18

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 93.2% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~20 days

Total

3

Last Release

4261d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e6b4f6d6d37192719fb4d4d03bbdb9e866972a2b6556da9967b10b35843809f1?d=identicon)[marcioAlmada](/maintainers/marcioAlmada)

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Top Contributors

[![marcioAlmada](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/227395?v=4)](https://github.com/marcioAlmada "marcioAlmada (55 commits)")[![reiz](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/652130?v=4)](https://github.com/reiz "reiz (2 commits)")[![debo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/493257?v=4)](https://github.com/debo "debo (1 commits)")[![gsouf](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3215399?v=4)](https://github.com/gsouf "gsouf (1 commits)")

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Tags

regexPCREpregutilssupportregexp

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