Objeck Classes

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RegEx

Regular expression engine.

Support for following matches:

. ‐ any
? ‐ optional
* ‐ zero or more repetitions
+ ‐ one or more repetitions
^ ‐ first single match
$ ‐ last single match
group ‐ (one|two|three)
range ‐ [start-end]

Support for following special patterns:

word ‐ \w
not word ‐ \W
digit ‐ \d
not digit ‐ \D
white space ‐ \s
not white space ‐ \s
repeat ‐ {least, most}

Operations

New
Find
FindFirst
IsOk
Match
MatchExact
ReplaceAll
ReplaceFirst

New

Default constructor

New(input:String)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
input	String	regex pattern

Find

Finds all occurrences

method : public : native : Find(input:String) ~ Vector<Result>

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
input	String	string to match against

Return

Type	Description
Vector<Result>	vector of string matches

FindFirst

Matches the first occurrence

method : public : native : FindFirst(input:String) ~ Result

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
input	String	string to match against

Return

Type	Description
Result	matched string if found, empty string otherwise

IsOk

Check of the regex was parsed correctly

method : public : IsOk() ~ Bool

Return

Type	Description
Bool	true if parsed, false otherwise

Match

Matches as much of the string as possible

method : public : Match(input:String) ~ String

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
input	String	string to match against

Return

Type	Description
String	matched string if found, empty string otherwise

Matches as much of the string as possible

method : public : Match(input:String, offset:Int) ~ String

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
input	String	string to match against
offset	Int	offset into the to match against

Return

Type	Description
String	matched string if found, empty string otherwise

MatchExact

Looks for an exact regex match

method : public : MatchExact(input:String) ~ Bool

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
input	String	string to match against

Return

Type	Description
Bool	true if exact, false otherwise

ReplaceAll

Replaces all occurrences of the given string

method : public : native : ReplaceAll(input:String, replace:String) ~ String

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
input	String	string to match against
replace	String	string to replace the match with

Return

Type	Description
String	replaced string

ReplaceFirst

Replaces the first occurrence with the given string

method : public : native : ReplaceFirst(input:String, replace:String) ~ String

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
input	String	string to match against
replace	String	string to replace the match with

Return

Type	Description
String	replaced string