diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 638e2f6..3af5ea0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ lxml==5.1.0
 numpy==1.22.4; python_version == '3.8'
 numpy==1.26.4; python_version >= '3.9'
 optbinning==0.19.0
+pcre2==0.4.0
 pandas==1.5.3
 scikit-learn
 scikit-lego==0.7.4
diff --git a/sklearn2pmml/preprocessing/regex.py b/sklearn2pmml/preprocessing/regex.py
index a6337db..74bde44 100644
--- a/sklearn2pmml/preprocessing/regex.py
+++ b/sklearn2pmml/preprocessing/regex.py
@@ -39,6 +39,25 @@ def matches(self, x):
 	def replace(self, replacement, x):
 		return self.pattern_.sub(replacement, x)
 
+class PCRE2Engine(RegExEngine):
+
+	def __init__(self, pattern):
+		import pcre2
+
+		super(PCRE2Engine, self).__init__(pattern)
+		self.pattern_ = pcre2.compile(pattern)
+
+	def matches(self, x):
+		scanner = self.pattern_.scan(x)
+		try:
+			scanner.__next__()
+			return True
+		except StopIteration:
+			return False
+
+	def replace(self, replacement, x):
+		return self.pattern_.substitute(replacement, x)
+
 def make_regex_engine(pattern):
 	try:
 		return PCREEngine(pattern)
diff --git a/sklearn2pmml/preprocessing/tests/test_regex.py b/sklearn2pmml/preprocessing/tests/test_regex.py
index 846db05..74fc798 100644
--- a/sklearn2pmml/preprocessing/tests/test_regex.py
+++ b/sklearn2pmml/preprocessing/tests/test_regex.py
@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
-from sklearn2pmml.preprocessing.regex import REEngine
+from sklearn2pmml.preprocessing.regex import PCRE2Engine, REEngine
 from unittest import TestCase
 
+class PCRE2EngineTest(TestCase):
+
+	def test_matches(self):
+		engine = PCRE2Engine("ar?y")
+		self.assertTrue(engine.matches("January"))
+		self.assertFalse(engine.matches("March"))
+		self.assertTrue(engine.matches("May"))
+
+	def test_replace(self):
+		engine = PCRE2Engine(r"(\w)")
+		self.assertEqual("P u p p y", engine.replace(r"$1 ", "Puppy").rstrip())
+		self.assertEqual(r"\1 \1 \1 \1 \1", engine.replace(r"\1 ", "Puppy").rstrip())
+
 class REEngineTest(TestCase):
 
 	def test_matches(self):
@@ -14,4 +27,5 @@ def test_matches(self):
 
 	def test_replace(self):
 		engine = REEngine(r"(\w)")
-		self.assertEqual("P u p p y", engine.replace(r"\1 ", "Puppy").strip())
+		self.assertEqual("$1 $1 $1 $1 $1", engine.replace(r"$1 ", "Puppy").rstrip())
+		self.assertEqual("P u p p y", engine.replace(r"\1 ", "Puppy").rstrip())