Crate smallgrep 

smallgrep

smallgrep is a lightweight, beginner-friendly implementation of grep written in Rust. It supports:

• Case-sensitive and case-insensitive search
• Exact (whole-word) matching
• Optional colorized output

Example

smallgrep cat file.txt
smallgrep cat file.txt --exact
smallgrep cat file.txt -i --colorize

This crate is primarily meant for learning.

Structs

Config

Functions

case_insensitive_search

Performs a case-insensitive substring search.

colorize_text

exact_search

Performs an exact (whole-word) search using a regex pattern.

run

search

Performs a case-sensitive substring search.