Regular Expressions in Nim
This Nim code demonstrates the use of regular expressions, which are supported through the re
module. Here’s a breakdown of the example:
We start by importing the necessary modules: re
for regular expressions and strutils
for string utilities.
The match
function is used to test if a pattern matches a string.
We compile a regular expression pattern into a Regex
object for more efficient use.
Various methods are demonstrated:
match
to test for a matchfind
to find the first matchfindBounds
to get the start and end indexes of the first matchfindAll
to get all matchesfindAllBounds
to get the bounds of all matches
We show how to limit the number of matches using an optional argument in findAll
.
String replacement is demonstrated using the replace
function, both with a simple replacement and with a function to transform the matched text.
To run this program, save it as regular_expressions.nim
and use the Nim compiler:
This will compile and run the program, displaying the results of various regular expression operations.
For a complete reference on Nim regular expressions, check the re
module documentation in the Nim standard library.