rex

Regular expressions.

Declared types

_match: (match: string, pos: int, length: int)

List of constants

Name Type Description
case_insensitive 1
cyrillic 2
newline 4
greed 8
multiline 16
extended 32

Functions

1. rex::find

Finds all substrings matching given regular expression.

Type definition

func(regex: string, text: string -> list(tmatch))

List of arguments

Name Type Description
regex string Regular expression to apply
text string Text to be matched with regular expression
modifiers int Reqular expression modifiers

List of results

Name Type Description
- list(_match) List of matches: string, position and length

2. rex::match

Tests a string for matching given regular expression.

Type definition

func(regex: string, text: string -> bool)

List of arguments

Name Type Description
regex string Regular expression to test
text string Text to be matched with regular expression
modifiers int Reqular expression modifiers

List of results

Name Type Description
- bool Match result

3. rex::replace

Replaces all matched substring with given one.

Type definition

func(regex: string, text: string, replacement: string -> string)

List of arguments

Name Type Description
regex string Regular expression to test
text string Source text
replacement string Replacement
modifiers int Reqular expression modifiers

List of results

Name Type Description
- string Text after replace

4. rex::split

Splits string into list of strings by regular expression.

Type definition

func(regex: string, text: string -> list(string))

List of arguments

Name Type Description
regex string Regular expression
text string Source text
modifiers int Reqular expression modifiers

List of results

Name Type Description
- list(string) Splitted text