Crate regex_lexer

A regex-based lexer (tokenizer).

use regex_lexer::LexerBuilder;

#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
enum Token {
    Num(u32),
    Add,
    Sub,
    Mul,
    Div,
    Open,
    Close,
}

let lexer = LexerBuilder::new()
    .token(r"[0-9]+", |tok| Some(Token::Num(tok.parse().unwrap())))
    .token(r"\+", |_| Some(Token::Add))
    .token(r"-", |_| Some(Token::Sub))
    .token(r"\*", |_| Some(Token::Mul))
    .token(r"/", |_| Some(Token::Div))
    .token(r"\(", |_| Some(Token::Open))
    .token(r"\)", |_| Some(Token::Close))
    .token(r"\s+", |_| None) // skip whitespace
    .build()?;

let source = "(1 + 2) * 3";
assert_eq!(
    lexer.tokens(source).collect::<Vec<_>>(),
    vec![
        Token::Open, Token::Num(1), Token::Add, Token::Num(2), Token::Close,
        Token::Mul, Token::Num(3)
    ],
);

Structs

Lexer

A regex-based lexer.

LexerBuilder

Builder struct for Lexer.

Tokens

The type returned by Lexer::tokens.