On Saturday, 16 September 2017 at 03:23:14 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Saturday, 16 September 2017 at 03:18:31 UTC, Ky-Anh Huynh
wrote:
Is there a way to transform user input string to a regular
expression? For example, I want to write a `grep`-like program
import std.regex;
auto re = regex(
On Saturday, 16 September 2017 at 03:18:31 UTC, Ky-Anh Huynh
wrote:
Is there a way to transform user input string to a regular
expression? For example, I want to write a `grep`-like program
import std.regex;
auto re = regex(user_pattern, user_flags);
You'll probably want to split it on the '
Hi,
Is there a way to transform user input string to a regular
expression? For example, I want to write a `grep`-like program
```
mygrep -E '/pattern/i' file.txt
```
and here the user's parameter `/pattern/i` would be converted to
a Regex object.
Fyi, in Ruby, `to_regexp` is a useful gem:
