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// Copyright 2014-2015 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
// except according to those terms.
use fmt;
use iter;
use slice;
use vec;
use Expr;
use ;
use Error;
/// Match multiple (possibly overlapping) regular expressions in a single scan.
///
/// A regex set corresponds to the union of two or more regular expressions.
/// That is, a regex set will match text where at least one of its
/// constituent regular expressions matches. A regex set as its formulated here
/// provides a touch more power: it will also report *which* regular
/// expressions in the set match. Indeed, this is the key difference between
/// regex sets and a single `Regex` with many alternates, since only one
/// alternate can match at a time.
///
/// For example, consider regular expressions to match email addresses and
/// domains: `[a-z]+@[a-z]+\.(com|org|net)` and `[a-z]+\.(com|org|net)`. If a
/// regex set is constructed from those regexes, then searching the text
/// `foo@example.com` will report both regexes as matching. Of course, one
/// could accomplish this by compiling each regex on its own and doing two
/// searches over the text. The key advantage of using a regex set is that it
/// will report the matching regexes using a *single pass through the text*.
/// If one has hundreds or thousands of regexes to match repeatedly (like a URL
/// router for a complex web application or a user agent matcher), then a regex
/// set can realize huge performance gains.
///
/// # Example
///
/// This shows how the above two regexes (for matching email addresses and
/// domains) might work:
///
/// ```rust
/// use regex::RegexSet;
///
/// let set = RegexSet::new(&[
/// r"[a-z]+@[a-z]+\.(com|org|net)",
/// r"[a-z]+\.(com|org|net)",
/// ]).unwrap();
///
/// // Ask whether any regexes in the set match.
/// assert!(set.is_match("foo@example.com"));
///
/// // Identify which regexes in the set match.
/// let matches: Vec<_> = set.matches("foo@example.com").into_iter().collect();
/// assert_eq!(vec![0, 1], matches);
///
/// // Try again, but with text that only matches one of the regexes.
/// let matches: Vec<_> = set.matches("example.com").into_iter().collect();
/// assert_eq!(vec![1], matches);
///
/// // Try again, but with text that doesn't match any regex in the set.
/// let matches: Vec<_> = set.matches("example").into_iter().collect();
/// assert!(matches.is_empty());
/// ```
///
/// Note that it would be possible to adapt the above example to using `Regex`
/// with an expression like:
///
/// ```ignore
/// (?P<email>[a-z]+@(?P<email_domain>[a-z]+[.](com|org|net)))|(?P<domain>[a-z]+[.](com|org|net))
/// ```
///
/// After a match, one could then inspect the capture groups to figure out
/// which alternates matched. The problem is that it is hard to make this
/// approach scale when there are many regexes since the overlap between each
/// alternate isn't always obvious to reason about.
///
/// # Limitations
///
/// Regex sets are limited to answering the following two questions:
///
/// 1. Does any regex in the set match?
/// 2. If so, which regexes in the set match?
///
/// As with the main `Regex` type, it is cheaper to ask (1) instead of (2)
/// since the matching engines can stop after the first match is found.
///
/// Other features like finding the location of successive matches or their
/// sub-captures aren't supported. If you need this functionality, the
/// recommended approach is to compile each regex in the set independently and
/// selectively match them based on which regexes in the set matched.
///
/// # Performance
///
/// A `RegexSet` has the same performance characteristics as `Regex`. Namely,
/// search takes `O(mn)` time, where `m` is proportional to the size of the
/// regex set and `n` is proportional to the length of the search text.
;
/// A set of matches returned by a regex set.
/// An owned iterator over the set of matches from a regex set.
;
/// A borrowed iterator over the set of matches from a regex set.
///
/// The lifetime `'a` refers to the lifetime of a `SetMatches` value.
;