| Portability | non-portable (regex-base needs MPTC+FD) | 
|---|---|
| Stability | experimental | 
| Maintainer | libraries@haskell.org | 
| Safe Haskell | Safe-Infered | 
Text.Regex
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Description
Regular expression matching. Uses the POSIX regular expression interface in Text.Regex.Posix.
Regular expressions
data Regex
A compiled regular expression.
Instances
mkRegex :: String -> RegexSource
Makes a regular expression with the default options (multi-line,
 case-sensitive).  The syntax of regular expressions is
 otherwise that of egrep (i.e. POSIX "extended" regular
 expressions).
Arguments
| :: String | The regular expression to compile | 
| -> Bool | 
 | 
| -> Bool | 
 | 
| -> Regex | Returns: the compiled regular expression | 
Makes a regular expression, where the multi-line and case-sensitive options can be changed from the default settings.
Arguments
| :: Regex | The regular expression | 
| -> String | The string to match against | 
| -> Maybe [String] | Returns:  | 
Match a regular expression against a string
Arguments
| :: Regex | The regular expression | 
| -> String | The string to match against | 
| -> Maybe (String, String, String, [String]) | Returns:    Just ( everything before match,
         portion matched,
         everything after the match,
         subexpression matches )
 | 
Match a regular expression against a string, returning more information about the match.
Arguments
| :: Regex | Search pattern | 
| -> String | Input string | 
| -> String | Replacement text | 
| -> String | Output string | 
Replaces every occurance of the given regexp with the replacement string.
In the replacement string, "\1" refers to the first substring;
"\2" to the second, etc; and "\0" to the entire match.
"\\\\" will insert a literal backslash.
This does not advance if the regex matches an empty string. This misfeature is here to match the behavior of the the original Text.Regex API.
splitRegex :: Regex -> String -> [String]Source
Splits a string based on a regular expression. The regular expression should identify one delimiter.
This does not advance and produces an infinite list of [] if the regex matches an empty string. This misfeature is here to match the behavior of the the original Text.Regex API.