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Aadhavan Srinivasan 24 hours ago
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My engine does not support byte-slices. When a matching function receives a string, it converts it into a
rune-slice to iterate through it. While this has some space overhead, the convenience of built-in unicode
support made the tradeoff worth it.
3. Return values
Rather than using primitives for return values, my engine defines two types that are used as return
values: a [Group] represents a capturing group, and a [Match] represents a list of groups.
[regexp] specifies a regular expression that gives a list of all the matching functions that it supports. The
equivalent expression for this engine is:
Find(All)?(String)?(Submatch)?
[Reg.Find] returns the index of the leftmost match in the string.
If a function contains 'All' it returns all matches instead of just the leftmost one.
If a function contains 'String' it returns the matched text, rather than the indices.
If a function contains 'Submatch' it returns the match, including all submatches found by
capturing groups.
The term '0-group' is used to refer to the 0th capturing group of a match (which is the entire match).
Given the following regex:
x(y)
and the input string:
xyz
The 0th group would contain 'xy' and the 1st group would contain 'y'. Any matching function without 'Submatch' in its name
returns the 0-group.
*/
package regex

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