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### Regular Expression Syntax
-On POSIX systems (e.g. Linux, Cygwin, and Mac), googletest uses the
+When built with Bazel and using Abseil, googletest uses the
+[RE2](https://github.com/google/re2/wiki/Syntax) syntax. Otherwise, for POSIX
+systems (Linux, Cygwin, Mac), googletest uses the
[POSIX extended regular expression](http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html#tag_09_04)
-syntax. To learn about this syntax, you may want to read this
+syntax. To learn about POSIX syntax, you may want to read this
[Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression#POSIX_Extended_Regular_Expressions).
On Windows, googletest uses its own simple regular expression implementation. It