Look no further, the iterator in a loop context is an actual iterator and lazy:
for groups in props["(\\w+)\\s*=\\s*(.*)"] {
params[String(groups[1]!)] = String(groups[2]!)
}
If you break half way through the remaining matches will not have been
performed.
This is as opposed to the following which would be exhaustive.
if let allGroupsOfAllMatches: [[Substring?]] = props["(\\w+)\\s*=\\s*(.*)"] {
for groups in allGroupsOfAllMatches {
params[String(groups[1]!)] = String(groups[2]!)
}
}
> On 11 Jan 2018, at 18:15, C. Keith Ray <keith...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> That looks great. One thing I would look for is iterating over multiple
> matches in a string. I'd want to see lazy and non-lazy sequences.
>
> let wordMatcher = Regex(":w*") // or whatever matches word-characters
> // separated by non-word character.
>
> for w in aString[allMatches: wordMatcher] { print(w) }
>
> for w in warAndPeaceNovel[allMatchesLazy: wordMatcher].prefix(50) {
> print(w) }
>
> --
> C. Keith Ray
>
> * https://leanpub.com/wepntk <https://leanpub.com/wepntk> <- buy my book?
> * http://www.thirdfoundationsw.com/keith_ray_resume_2014_long.pdf
> <http://www.thirdfoundationsw.com/keith_ray_resume_2014_long.pdf>
> * http://agilesolutionspace.blogspot.com/
> <http://agilesolutionspace.blogspot.com/>
>
> On Jan 11, 2018, at 9:50 AM, John Holdsworth via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Thanks for sending this through. It’s an interesting read. One section gave
>> me pause however. I feel Swift should resist the siren call of combining
>> Swift Syntax with Regex syntax as it falls on the wrong side of Occam's
>> razor. ISO Regex syntax is plenty complex enough without trying to
>> incorporate named capture, desirable as it may be. Also, if I was to go down
>> that route, I’d move away from / as the delimiter which is a carry over from
>> Perl to something like e”I am a regex” to give the lexer more to go on which
>> could represent say, a cached instance of NSRegularExpression.
>>
>> And now for something completely different...
>>
>> Common usage patterns for a regex fall into 4 categories: deconstruction,
>> replacement, iteration and switch/case. Ideally the representation of a
>> regex match would the same for all four of these categories and I’d like to
>> argue a set of expressive regex primitives can be created without building
>> them into the language.
>>
>> I’ve talked before about a regex match being coded as a string/regex
>> subscripting into a string and I’ve been able to move this forward since
>> last year. While this seems like an arbitrary operator to use it has some
>> semantic sense in that you are addressing a sub-part of the string with
>> pattern as you might use an index or a key. Subscripts also have some very
>> interesting properties in Swift compared to other operators or functions:
>> You don’t have to worry about precedence, they can be assigned to, used as
>> an interator, and I've learned since my last email on this topic that the
>> Swift type checker will disambiguate multiple subscript overloads on the
>> basis of the type of the variable is being assigned to.
>>
>> An extension to String can now realise the common use cases by judicious use
>> of types:
>>
>> var input = "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the
>> party"
>>
>> if input["\\w+"] {
>> print("match")
>> }
>>
>> // receiving type controls data you get
>> if let firstMatch: Substring = input["\\w+"] {
>> print("match: \(firstMatch)")
>> }
>>
>> if let groupsOfFirstMatch: [Substring?] = input["(all) (\\w+)"] {
>> print("groups: \(groupsOfFirstMatch)")
>> }
>>
>> // "splat" out up to N groups of first match
>> if let (group1, group2): (String, String) = input["(all) (\\w+)"] {
>> print("group1: \(group1), group2: \(group2)")
>> }
>>
>> if let allGroupsOfAllMatches: [[Substring?]] = input["(\\w)(\\w*)"] {
>> print("allGroups: \(allGroupsOfAllMatches)")
>> }
>>
>> // regex replace by assignment
>> input["men"] = "folk"
>> print(input)
>>
>> // parsing a properties file using regex as iterator
>> let props = """
>> name1 = value1
>> name2 = value2
>> """
>>
>> var params = [String: String]()
>> for groups in props["(\\w+)\\s*=\\s*(.*)"] {
>> params[String(groups[1]!)] = String(groups[2]!)
>> }
>> print(params)
>>
>> The case for switches is slightly more opaque in order to avoid executing
>> the match twice but viable.
>>
>> let match = RegexMatch()
>> switch input {
>> case RegexPattern("(\\w)(\\w*)", capture: match):
>> let (first, rest) = input[match]
>> print("\(first) \(rest)")
>> default:
>> break
>> }
>>
>> This is explored in the attached playground (repo:
>> https://github.com/johnno1962/SwiftRegex4
>> <https://github.com/johnno1962/SwiftRegex4>)
>> <SwiftRegex4.playground.zip>
>>
>> I’m not sure I really expect this to take off as an idea but I’d like to
>> make sure it's out there as an option and it certainly qualifies as “out
>> there”.
>>
>> John
>>
>>> On 10 Jan 2018, at 19:58, Michael Ilseman via swift-evolution
>>> <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello, I just sent an email to swift-dev titled "State of String: ABI,
>>> Performance, Ergonomics, and You!” at
>>> https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-dev/Week-of-Mon-20180108/006407.html
>>>
>>> <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-dev/Week-of-Mon-20180108/006407.html>,
>>> whose gist can be found at
>>> https://gist.github.com/milseman/bb39ef7f170641ae52c13600a512782f
>>> <https://gist.github.com/milseman/bb39ef7f170641ae52c13600a512782f>. I
>>> posted to swift-dev as much of the content is from an implementation
>>> perspective, but it also addresses many areas of potential evolution.
>>> Please refer to that email for details; here’s the recap from it:
>>>
>>> ### Recap: Potential Additions for Swift 5
>>>
>>> * Some form of unmanaged or unsafe Strings, and corresponding APIs
>>> * Exposing performance flags, and some way to request a scan to populate
>>> them
>>> * API gaps
>>> * Character and UnicodeScalar properties, such as isNewline
>>> * Generalizing, and optimizing, String interpolation
>>> * Regex literals, Regex type, and generalized pattern match destructuring
>>> * Substitution APIs, in conjunction with Regexes.
>>>
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