Our first program demonstrates the use of regular expressions in D. Here’s the full source code:
To run the program, save it as regular_expressions.d and use the D compiler:
This will output:
For a complete reference on D regular expressions, check the std.regex module documentation.
In D, regular expressions are provided by the std.regex module. The syntax is similar to other languages, but there are some D-specific features and functions.
The regex function is used to compile a regular expression pattern into an optimized object. The matchFirst function is used for finding the first match, while matchAll can be used to find all matches.
D provides powerful string manipulation functions like replaceAll and replaceFirstIn for working with regular expressions. The replaceFirstIn function allows you to use a delegate to transform the matched text, which provides great flexibility.
Remember that D uses \ as an escape character in strings, so it’s often convenient to use raw string literals (prefixed with r) for regex patterns to avoid having to escape backslashes.