README.md

re

re defines regular expression functions, it's intended to be a drop-in subset of Python's re module for Starlark.

Functions

compile(pattern) Pattern

Compile a regular expression pattern into a regular expression object, which can be used for matching using its match(), search() and other methods.

Parameters

name	type	description
pattern	string	regular expression pattern string

search(pattern,string,flags=0)

Scan through string looking for the first location where the regular expression pattern produces a match, and return a corresponding match object. Return None if no position in the string matches the pattern; note that this is different from finding a zero-length match at some point in the string.

Parameters

name	type	description
pattern	string	regular expression pattern string
string	string	input string to search
flags	int	integer flags to control regex behaviour. reserved for future use

findall(pattern, text, flags=0)

Returns all non-overlapping matches of pattern in string, as a list of strings. The string is scanned left-to-right, and matches are returned in the order found. If one or more groups are present in the pattern, return a list of groups; this will be a list of tuples if the pattern has more than one group. Empty matches are included in the result.

Parameters

name	type	description
pattern	string	regular expression pattern string
text	string	string to find within
flags	int	integer flags to control regex behaviour. reserved for future use

split(pattern, text, maxsplit=0, flags=0)

Split text by the occurrences of pattern. If capturing parentheses are used in pattern, then the text of all groups in the pattern are also returned as part of the resulting list. If maxsplit is nonzero, at most maxsplit splits occur, and the remainder of the string is returned as the final element of the list.

Parameters

name	type	description
pattern	string	regular expression pattern string
text	string	input string to split
maxsplit	int	maximum number of splits to make. default 0 splits all matches
flags	int	integer flags to control regex behaviour. reserved for future use

sub(pattern, repl, text, count=0, flags=0)

Return the string obtained by replacing the leftmost non-overlapping occurrences of pattern in string by the replacement repl. If the pattern isn’t found, string is returned unchanged. repl can be a string or a function; if it is a string, any backslash escapes in it are processed. That is, \n is converted to a single newline character, \r is converted to a carriage return, and so forth.

Parameters

name	type	description
pattern	string	regular expression pattern string
repl	string	string to replace matches with
text	string	input string to replace
count	int	number of replacements to make, default 0 means replace all matches
flags	int	integer flags to control regex behaviour. reserved for future use

match(pattern, string, flags=0)

If zero or more characters at the beginning of string match the regular expression pattern, return a corresponding match string tuple. Return None if the string does not match the pattern

Parameters

name	type	description
pattern	string	regular expression pattern string
string	string	input string to match

Types

Pattern

Methods

match(text, flags=0)

findall(text, flags=0)

split(text, maxsplit=0, flags=0)

sub(repl, text, count=0, flags=0)