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| author | Bruce Hill <bruce@bruce-hill.com> | 2020-12-12 16:31:53 -0800 |
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| committer | Bruce Hill <bruce@bruce-hill.com> | 2020-12-12 16:31:53 -0800 |
| commit | eb329bdac9fe56d67cb130fb6cdbb28743c6504b (patch) | |
| tree | 8ba8bded07820519de06728618e4e32e80da3af4 /bp.1 | |
| parent | 6e1fd928148cc7e46015e06c27f824d4111f96ee (diff) | |
Bunch of changes, including some bpeg->bp renaming, and adding
visualizations
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@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@ +.\" Manpage for bp. +.\" Contact bruce@bruce-hill.com to correct errors or typos. +.TH man 1 "Sep 12, 2020" "0.1" "bp manual page" +.SH NAME +bp \- Bruce's Parsing Expression Grammar tool +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B bp +[\fI-h\fR|\fI--help\fR] +[\fI-v\fR|\fI--verbose\fR] +[\fI-i\fR|\fI--ignore-case\fR \fI<pattern>\fR] +[\fI-p\fR|\fI--pattern\fR \fI<pattern>\fR] +[\fI-P\fR|\fI--pattern-string\fR \fI<string-pattern>\fR] +[\fI-d\fR|\fI--define\fR \fI<name>\fR:\fI<pattern>\fR] +[\fI-D\fR|\fI--define-string\fR \fI<name>\fR:\fI<string-pattern>\fR] +[\fI-r\fR|\fI--replace\fR \fI<replacement>\fR] +[\fI-g\fR|\fI--grammar\fR \fI<grammar file>\fR] +[\fI-m\fR|\fI--mode\fR \fI<mode>\fR] +\fI<pattern\fR +[[--] \fI<input files...>\fR] +.SH DESCRIPTION +\fBbp\fR is a tool that matches parsing expression grammars using a custom syntax. +.SH OPTIONS +.B \-v\fR, \fB--verbose +Print debugging information. + +.B \-i\fR, \fB--ignore-case +Perform pattern matching case-insensitively. + +.B \-d\fR, \fB--define \fI<name>\fR:\fI<pattern>\fR +Define a grammar rule using a bp pattern. + +.B \-D\fR, \fB--define-string \fI<name>\fR:\fI<string-pattern>\fR +Define a grammar rule using a bp string pattern. + +.B \-r\fR, \fB--replace \fI<replacement>\fR +Replace all occurrences of the main pattern with the given string. + +.B \-g\fR, \fB--grammar \fI<grammar file>\fR +Load the grammar from the given file. + +.B \-m\fR, \fB--mode \fI<mode>\fR +The mode to operate in. Options are: \fIfind-all\fR (the default), +\fIonly-matches\fR, \fIpattern\fR, \fIreplacement\fR, \fIreplace-all\fR +(implied by \fB--replace\fR), or any other grammar rule name. + +.B \--help +Print the usage and exit. + +.B <string-pattern> +The main pattern for bp to match. By default, this pattern is a string +pattern (see the \fBSTRING PATTERNS\fR section below). + +.B <input files...> +The input files to search. If no input files are provided and data was +piped in, that data will be used instead. If neither are provided, +\fBbp\fR will search through all files in the current directory and +its subdirectories (recursively). + +.SH PATTERNS +bp patterns are based off of a combination of Parsing Expression Grammars +and regular expression syntax. The syntax is designed to map closely to +verbal descriptions of the patterns, and prefix operators are preferred over +suffix operators (as is common in regex syntax). + +Some patterns additionally have "multi-line" variants, which means that they +include the newline character. + +.I <pat1> <pat2> +A chain of patterns, pronounced \fI<pat1>\fB-then-\fI<pat2>\fR + +.I <pat1> \fB/\fI <pat2>\fR +A series of ordered choices (if one pattern matches, the following patterns +will not be attempted), pronounced \fI<pat1>\fB-or-\fI<pat2>\fR + +.B .. +Any text \fBup-to-and-including\fR the following pattern, if any (multiline: \fB...\fR) + +.B . +\fBAny\fR character (multiline: $.) + +.B ^ +\fBStart-of-a-line\fR + +.B ^^ +\fBStart-of-the-text\fR + +.B $ +\fBEnd-of-a-line\fR (does not include newline character) + +.B $$ +\fBEnd-of-the-text\fR + +.B _ +Zero or more \fBwhitespace\fR characters (specifically, spaces and tabs) + +.B __ +Zero or more \fBwhitespace-or-newline\fR characters + +.B `\fI<c>\fR +The literal \fBcharacter-\fI<c>\fR + +.B `\fI<c1>\fB-\fI<c2>\fR +The \fBcharacter-range-\fI<c1>\fB-to-\fI<c2>\fR + +.B \\\fI<esc>\fR +The \fBescape-sequence-\fI<esc>\fR (\fB\\n\fR, \fB\\x1F\fR, \fB\\033\fR, etc.) + +.B \\\fI<esc1>\fB-\fI<esc2>\fR +The \fBescape-sequence-range-\fI<esc1>\fB-to-\fI<esc2>\fR + +.B !\fI<pat>\fR +\fBNot-\fI<pat>\fR + +.B [\fI<pat>\fR] +\fBMaybe-\fI<pat>\fR + +.B \fI<pat>\fR? +\fI<pat>\fB-or-not\fR + +.B \fI<N> <pat>\fR +.B \fI<MIN>\fB-\fI<MAX> <pat>\fR +.B \fI<MIN>\fB+ \fI<pat>\fR +\fI<MIN>\fB-to-\fI<MAX>\fB-\fI<pat>\fBs\fR (repetitions of a pattern) + +.B *\fI<pat>\fR +\fBsome-\fI<pat>\fBs\fR + +.B +\fI<pat>\fR +\fBat-least-one-\fI<pat>\fBs\fR + +.B \fI<repeating-pat>\fR \fB%\fI <sep>\fR +\fI<repeating-pat>\fB-separated-by-\fI<sep>\fR (equivalent to \fI<pat> +\fB0+(\fI<sep><pat>\fB)\fR) + +.B <\fI<pat>\fR +\fBJust-after-\fI<pat>\fR (lookbehind) + +.B >\fI<pat>\fR +\fBJust-before-\fI<pat>\fR (lookahead) + +.B @\fI<pat>\fR +\fBCapture-\fI<pat>\fR + +.B @\fI<name>\fB=\fI<pat>\fR +\fBLet-\fI<name>\fB-equal-\fI<pat>\fR (named capture) + +.B {\fI<pat>\fB => "\fI<replacement>\fB"} +\fBReplace-\fI<pat>\fB-with-\fI<replacement>\fR. Note: \fI<replacement>\fR should +be a string, and it may contain references to captured values: \fB@0\fR +(the whole of \fI<pat>\fR), \fB@1\fR (the first capture in \fI<pat>\fR), +\fB@[\fIfoo\fR]\fR (the capture named \fIfoo\fR in \fI<pat>\fR), etc. + +.B \fI<pat1>\fB == \fI<pat2>\fR +Will match only if \fI<pat1>\fR and \fI<pat2>\fR both match and have the exact +same length. Pronounced \fI<pat1>\fB-assuming-it-equals-\fI<pat2>\fR + +.B \fI<pat1>\fB != \fI<pat2>\fR +Will match only if \fI<pat1>\fR matches, but \fI<pat2>\fR doesn't also match with the +same length. Pronounced \fI<pat1>\fB-unless-it-equals-\fI<pat2>\fR + +.B \fI<pat1>\fB != \fI<pat2>\fR +Will match only if \fI<pat1>\fR and \fI<pat2>\fR don't both match and have the +exact same length. Pronounced \fI<pat1>\fB-assuming-it-doesn't-equal-\fI<pat2>\fR + +.B | +This pattern matches the indentation at the beginning of a line that has the +same indentation as the line before (or zero indentation on the first line). + +.B #( \fI<comment>\fR )# +A block comment (can be nested) + +.B # \fI<comment>\fR +A line comment + +.SH STRING PATTERNS +One of the most common use cases for pattern matching tools is matching plain, +literal strings, or strings that are primarily plain strings, with one or two +patterns. \fBbp\fR is designed around this fact. The default mode for bp +patterns is "string pattern mode". In string pattern mode, all characters +are interpreted literally except for the backslash (\fB\\\fR), which may be +followed by a bp pattern (see the \fBPATTERNS\fR section above). Optionally, +the bp pattern may be terminated by a semicolon (\fB;\fR). + +.SH EXAMPLES +.TP +.B +ls | bp foo +Find files containing the string "foo" (a string pattern) + +.TP +.B +ls | bp '.c\\$' -r '.h' +Find files ending with ".c" and replace the extension with ".h" + +.TP +.B +bp -p '"foobar"==id parens' my_file.py +Find the literal string \fB"foobar"\fR, assuming it's a complete identifier, +followed by a pair of matching parentheses in the file \fImy_file.py\fR + +.TP +.B +bp -g html -p html-element -D matching-tag=a foo.html +Using the \fIhtml\fR grammar, find all \fIhtml-element\fRs matching +the tag \fIa\fR in the file \fIfoo.html\fR + + +.SH AUTHOR +Bruce Hill (bruce@bruce-hill.com) |
