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#Where is the regex?
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hhv0001 01/14/2024 01:26 PM
Hi, I'm trying to find a package that supports regexes but I can't find it. Nobody wanted regexes so far? Or am I not that good at looking for packages? It seems not to be built in to the Toit language either.
Thanks for any hints on where to look.
Thanks for any hints on where to look.
floitsch 01/14/2024 01:27 PM@erikcorry wrote an implementation but hasn't released it as a package yet.
floitsch 01/14/2024 01:27 PM
I did a minimal (and slow) version as well.
floitsch 01/14/2024 01:33 PM
floitsch 01/14/2024 01:33 PM
We want to add Regex eventually to the language as well. Just didn't have the time yet.
hhv0001 01/14/2024 01:33 PM
OK, thanks again. There's no rush so I'll wait patiently. Whether or not is is fast is not that important to me. Functionality also is not that important, I just wanted to match simple URLs, e.g. "/hetis/true" and "/hetis/false" and some RGB values maybe. Simple stuff.
hhv0001 01/14/2024 01:33 PM
OK, I'll have a look!
floitsch 01/14/2024 01:33 PM
That should work with the gist-version.
hhv0001 01/14/2024 01:34 PM
Great!
floitsch 01/14/2024 01:34 PM
Here are a few test-cases:
r := regex.parse "a|b"
expect (r.match "a")
expect (r.match "b")
expect-not (r.match "c")
r = regex.parse "^a|b\$"
expect (r.match "a")
expect (r.match "b")
expect-not (r.match "c")hhv0001 01/14/2024 01:34 PM
Excellent, just what I need it seems. 
floitsch 01/14/2024 01:34 PM
It doesn't support captures, though.
hhv0001 01/14/2024 01:35 PM
Aaah... 
floitsch 01/14/2024 01:35 PM
So if you need to get the values out, then you need Erik's library.
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hhv0001 01/14/2024 01:36 PM
floitsch 01/14/2024 01:36 PM
At least I hope he has implemented captures.
floitsch 01/14/2024 01:36 PM
Source definitely talks about captures.
hhv0001 01/14/2024 01:38 PM
It does, it's also tested it seems, it might work.
floitsch 01/14/2024 01:41 PM1
I just pinged Erik, and asked him to publish his package, even if it's not completely finished yet.
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erikcorry 01/14/2024 04:41 PM
It's Dart-compatible, which means it's JavaScript-compatible.
erikcorry 01/14/2024 04:41 PM
ES5 version.
erikcorry 01/14/2024 04:43 PM
The documentation is a bit lacking, but see the test.
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erikcorry 01/14/2024 04:47 PM
Note that we don't have raw strings, so you have to double backslashes and dollar signs.
If you wanted to match
If you wanted to match
/^\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d$/re := RegExp "^\\d\\d\\d\\d-\\d\\d-\\d\\d\$"hhv0001 01/14/2024 05:41 PM
I'll give it a go, thanks guys!
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