{-| The "Text.Regex.TDFA" module provides a backend for regular expressions. It provides instances for the classes defined and documented in "Text.Regex.Base" and re-exported by this module. If you import this along with other backends then you should do so with qualified imports (with renaming for convenience). This regex-tdfa package implements, correctly, POSIX extended regular expressions. It is highly unlikely that the regex-posix package on your operating system is correct, see <http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Regex_Posix> for examples of your OS's bugs. = Importing and using Add to your package.yaml/cabal file: > dependencies: > - regex-tdfa In modules where you need to use regexes: > import Text.Regex.TDFA Note that regex-tdfa does not provide support for @Text@ by default. If you need this functionality, add <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/regex-tdfa-text regex-tdfa-text> as a dependency and @import Text.Regex.TDFA.Text ()@. = Basics @ λ> let emailRegex = "[a-zA-Z0-9+.\_-]+\@[a-zA-Z-]+\\\\.[a-z]+" λ> "my email is email@email.com" '=~' emailRegex :: Bool >>> True /-- non-monadic/ λ> \<to-match-against\> '=~' \<regex\> /-- monadic, uses 'fail' on lack of match/ λ> \<to-match-against\> '=~~' \<regex\> @ ('=~') and ('=~~') are polymorphic in their return type. This is so that regex-tdfa can pick the most efficient way to give you your result based on what you need. For instance, if all you want is to check whether the regex matched or not, there's no need to allocate a result string. If you only want the first match, rather than all the matches, then the matching engine can stop after finding a single hit. This does mean, though, that you may sometimes have to explicitly specify the type you want, especially if you're trying things out at the REPL. = Common use cases == Get the first match @ /-- returns empty string if no match/ a '=~' b :: String /-- or ByteString, or Text.../ λ> "alexis-de-tocqueville" '=~' "[a-z]+" :: String >>> "alexis" λ> "alexis-de-tocqueville" '=~' "[0-9]+" :: String >>> "" @ == Check if it matched at all @ a '=~' b :: Bool λ> "alexis-de-tocqueville" '=~' "[a-z]+" :: Bool >>> True @ == Get first match + text before/after @ /-- if no match, will just return whole/ /-- string in the first element of the tuple/ a =~ b :: (String, String, String) λ> "alexis-de-tocqueville" '=~' "de" :: (String, String, String) >>> ("alexis-", "de", "-tocqueville") λ> "alexis-de-tocqueville" '=~' "kant" :: (String, String, String) >>> ("alexis-de-tocqueville", "", "") @ == Get first match + submatches @ /-- same as above, but also returns a list of just submatches./ /-- submatch list is empty if regex doesn't match at all/ a '=~' b :: (String, String, String, [String]) λ> "div[attr=1234]" '=~' "div\\\\[([a-z]+)=([^]]+)\\\\]" :: (String, String, String, [String]) >>> ("", "div[attr=1234]", "", ["attr","1234"]) @ == Get /all/ matches @ /-- can also return Data.Array instead of List/ 'getAllTextMatches' (a '=~' b) :: [String] λ> 'getAllTextMatches' ("john anne yifan" '=~' "[a-z]+") :: [String] >>> ["john","anne","yifan"] @ = Feature support This package does provide captured parenthesized subexpressions. Depending on the text being searched this package supports Unicode. The @[Char]@ and @(Seq Char)@ text types support Unicode. The @ByteString@ and @ByteString.Lazy@ text types only support ASCII. It is possible to support utf8 encoded @ByteString.Lazy@ by using regex-tdfa and <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regex-tdfa-utf8 regex-tdfa-utf8> packages together (required the utf8-string package). As of version 1.1.1 the following GNU extensions are recognized, all anchors: * \\\` at beginning of entire text * \\\' at end of entire text * \\\< at beginning of word * \\\> at end of word * \\b at either beginning or end of word * \\B at neither beginning nor end of word The above are controlled by the 'newSyntax' Bool in 'CompOption'. Where the "word" boundaries means between characters that are and are not in the [:word:] character class which contains [a-zA-Z0-9_]. Note that \\\< and \\b may match before the entire text and \\\> and \\b may match at the end of the entire text. There is no locale support, so collating elements like [.ch.] are simply ignored and equivalence classes like [=a=] are converted to just [a]. The character classes like [:alnum:] are supported over ASCII only, valid classes are alnum, digit, punct, alpha, graph, space, blank, lower, upper, cntrl, print, xdigit, word. This package does not provide "basic" regular expressions. This package does not provide back references inside regular expressions. The package does not provide Perl style regular expressions. Please look at the <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regex-pcre regex-pcre> and <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pcre-light pcre-light> packages instead. This package does not provide find-and-replace. = Avoiding backslashes If you find yourself writing a lot of regexes, take a look at <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/raw-strings-qq raw-strings-qq>. It'll let you write regexes without needing to escape all your backslashes. @ \{\-\# LANGUAGE QuasiQuotes \#\-\} import Text.RawString.QQ import Text.Regex.TDFA λ> "2 * (3 + 1) / 4" '=~' [r|\\([^)]+\\)|] :: String >>> "(3 + 1)" @ -} module Text.Regex.TDFA(getVersion_Text_Regex_TDFA ,(=~),(=~~) ,module Text.Regex.TDFA.Common ,module Text.Regex.Base) where import Data.Version(Version) import Text.Regex.Base import Text.Regex.TDFA.String() import Text.Regex.TDFA.ByteString() import Text.Regex.TDFA.ByteString.Lazy() import Text.Regex.TDFA.Sequence() import Text.Regex.TDFA.Common(Regex,CompOption(..),ExecOption(..)) --import Text.Regex.TDFA.Wrap(Regex,CompOption(..),ExecOption(..),(=~),(=~~)) import Paths_regex_tdfa(version) getVersion_Text_Regex_TDFA :: Version getVersion_Text_Regex_TDFA = version -- | This is the pure functional matching operator. If the target -- cannot be produced then some empty result will be returned. If -- there is an error in processing, then 'error' will be called. (=~) :: (RegexMaker Regex CompOption ExecOption source,RegexContext Regex source1 target) => source1 -> source -> target (=~) x r = let make :: RegexMaker Regex CompOption ExecOption a => a -> Regex make = makeRegex in match (make r) x -- | This is the monadic matching operator. If a single match fails, -- then 'fail' will be called. (=~~) :: (RegexMaker Regex CompOption ExecOption source,RegexContext Regex source1 target,Monad m) => source1 -> source -> m target (=~~) x r = do let make :: (RegexMaker Regex CompOption ExecOption a, Monad m) => a -> m Regex make = makeRegexM q <- make r matchM q x