Module pattern

Abstractions for working with patterns.

Structs

AnyChar

A pattern that matches anything.

NotEnclosed

Pattern that matches pattern Inner not surrounded by Enclosure.

NotEscaped

Pattern that matches pattern Inner not escaped by Prefix. “escaped” here means that the pattern Inner is preceded by a Prefix that’s not preceded by itself.

Ref

Pattern that’s the reference to another pattern, used in generic code to reuse the pattern.

Union

A pattern that matches either of the 2 patterns in a short-circuiting manner, with self tried first. May be created by Pattern::or for convenience.

Traits

Pattern

This trait represents an object that can be matched onto a string. This includes functions, characters, [arrays of] characters, strings, but also custom patterns like NotEscaped

Functions

parse

Parses 1 instance of pattern pat.

parse_group

Parse a balanced group of open & close patterns.

parse_group_ex

Parse a balanced group of open & close patterns.

parse_until

Parses a span of the input until a match of pattern pat is met.

parse_until_ex

Like parse_until, but also removes the match of pat from the rest of the input.

parse_while

Parses contiguous instances of pattern pat.