reflex

A simple flex-like lexing/tokenizing library written in Rust

Workflow:

• Define a Token enum with all possible tokens that implements Clone
• Create a Ruleset with reflex::Ruleset::<Token>::new()
• Add token rules with add_rule(), add_simple(), and add_noop()
• Call reflex::lex() with the string to be tokenized
• Use the resultant lazy iterator however you like

Example code for tokenizing a simple calculator language:

#[macro_use]
extern crate reflex;

use std::io;
use std::fmt;

#[derive(Clone)]
enum Token {
    Number(f64),
    OpAdd,
    OpSub,
    OpMul,
    OpDiv,
    OpPow,
}

impl fmt::Display for Token {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        write!(f, "{}", match *self {
            Token::Number(n) => n.to_string(),
            Token::OpAdd     => "+".to_string(),
            Token::OpSub     => "-".to_string(),
            Token::OpMul     => "*".to_string(),
            Token::OpDiv     => "/".to_string(),
            Token::OpPow     => "^".to_string(),
        }.to_string())
    }
}

fn main() {
    let mut program = String::new();
    io::stdin().read_line(&mut program).unwrap();

    let mut ruleset = reflex::Ruleset::<Token>::new();
    ruleset.add_rule(r"-?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]+", lex_rule!(|token| Token::Number(token.parse().unwrap())));
    ruleset.add_simple(r"\+", Token::OpAdd);
    ruleset.add_simple(r"-", Token::OpSub);
    ruleset.add_simple(r"\*", Token::OpMul);
    ruleset.add_simple(r"/", Token::OpDiv);
    ruleset.add_simple(r"\^", Token::OpPow);
    ruleset.add_noop(r"(?s)\s");
    let tokens = reflex::lex(&ruleset, program);

    for token in tokens {
        println!("{}", token.unwrap());
    }
}