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Regex matching over Erlang terms

Overview

ergex is a simple regex matcher which operates on Erlang terms - currently lists and tuples of atoms and integers - rather than strings of characters.

Based on code by Darius Bacon[1, 2].

[1] http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2007-May/026652.html [2] https://github.com/gebi/jungerl/tree/master/lib/ergex

Examples

Eshell V5.8.4 (abort with ^G) 1> ergex:matches_p(“{0|1, 42+, foo}”, {0, 42, 42, foo}). true 2> ergex:all_matches(“[quux?, foo*, <atom>]”, [foo, foo]). [[foo],[]]

Installation

[email protected]:~/git/ergex$ gmake [email protected]:~/git/ergex$ gmake test

Manifest

src/: ergex.erl – API ergex_lib.erl – Library ergex_ll.erl – Lazy lists ergex_matcher.erl – Engine ergex_parser.erl – Input language

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