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authorBruce Hill <bruce@bruce-hill.com>2020-12-12 16:31:53 -0800
committerBruce Hill <bruce@bruce-hill.com>2020-12-12 16:31:53 -0800
commiteb329bdac9fe56d67cb130fb6cdbb28743c6504b (patch)
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parent6e1fd928148cc7e46015e06c27f824d4111f96ee (diff)
Bunch of changes, including some bpeg->bp renaming, and adding
visualizations
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-.\" Manpage for bpeg.
-.\" Contact bruce@bruce-hill.com to correct errors or typos.
-.TH man 1 "Sep 12, 2020" "0.1" "bpeg manual page"
-.SH NAME
-bpeg \- Bruce's Parsing Expression Grammar tool
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B bpeg
-[\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
-\fBbpeg\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 bpeg pattern.
-
-.B \-D\fR, \fB--define-string \fI<name>\fR:\fI<string-pattern>\fR
-Define a grammar rule using a bpeg 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 bpeg 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,
-\fBbpeg\fR will search through all files in the current directory and
-its subdirectories (recursively).
-
-.SH PATTERNS
-Bpeg 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. \fBbpeg\fR is designed around this fact. The default mode for bpeg
-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 bpeg pattern (see the \fBPATTERNS\fR section above). Optionally,
-the bpeg pattern may be terminated by a semicolon (\fB;\fR).
-
-.SH EXAMPLES
-.TP
-.B
-ls | bpeg foo
-Find files containing the string "foo" (a string pattern)
-
-.TP
-.B
-ls | bpeg '.c\\$' -r '.h'
-Find files ending with ".c" and replace the extension with ".h"
-
-.TP
-.B
-bpeg -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
-bpeg -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)