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| author | Bruce Hill <bruce@bruce-hill.com> | 2025-03-03 13:45:30 -0500 |
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| committer | Bruce Hill <bruce@bruce-hill.com> | 2025-03-03 13:45:30 -0500 |
| commit | f330f06c218a0903530cdc51c0fac245cb51ae75 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e4220790a846cbd05190149edd3a61ce795b752 /docs/text.md | |
| parent | 80475ad02d6b20d6c667c3be8bc939a83632bd3f (diff) | |
Add `recursive` argument to text:each() and text:map(), plus update docs
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diff --git a/docs/text.md b/docs/text.md index 32cdbb35..b7e92b5f 100644 --- a/docs/text.md +++ b/docs/text.md @@ -264,153 +264,9 @@ finding the value because the two texts are equivalent under normalization. # Patterns -As an alternative to full regular expressions, Tomo provides a limited string -matching pattern syntax that is intended to solve 80% of use cases in under 1% -of the code size (PCRE's codebase is roughly 150k lines of code, and Tomo's -pattern matching code is a bit under 1k lines of code). Tomo's pattern matching -syntax is highly readable and works well for matching literal text without -getting [leaning toothpick syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaning_toothpick_syndrome). - -For more advanced use cases, consider linking against a C library for regular -expressions or pattern matching. - -`Pattern` is a [domain-specific language](docs/langs.md), in other words, it's -like a `Text`, but it has a distinct type. As a convenience, you can use -`$/.../` to write pattern literals instead of using the general-purpose DSL -syntax of `$Pattern"..."`. - -Patterns are used in a small, but very powerful API that handles many text -functions that would normally be handled by a more extensive API: - -``` -Text.has(pattern:Pattern -> Bool) -Text.find(pattern:Pattern, start=1 -> Match?) -Text.find_all(pattern:Pattern -> [Match]) -Text.matches(pattern:Pattern -> [Text]?) -Text.map(pattern:Pattern, fn:func(m:Match -> Text) -> Text) -Text.replace(pattern:Pattern, replacement:Text, placeholder:Pattern=$//, recursive=yes -> [Text]) -Text.replace_all(replacements:{Pattern,Text}, placeholder:Pattern=$//, recursive=yes -> [Text]) -Text.split(pattern:Pattern -> [Text]) -Text.trim(pattern=$/{whitespace}/, trim_left=yes, trim_right=yes -> [Text]) -``` - -Pattern matching functions work with a type called `Match` that has three fields: - -- `text`: The full text of the match. -- `index`: The index in the text where the match was found. -- `captures`: An array containing the matching text of each non-literal pattern group. - -See [Text Functions](#Text-Functions) for the full API documentation. - -## Syntax - -Patterns have three types of syntax: - -- `{` followed by an optional count (`n`, `n-m`, or `n+`), followed by an - optional `!` to negate the pattern, followed by an optional pattern name or - Unicode character name, followed by a required `}`. - -- Any matching pair of quotes or parentheses or braces with a `?` in the middle - (e.g. `"?"` or `(?)`). - -- Any other character is treated as a literal to be matched exactly. - -## Named Patterns - -Named patterns match certain pre-defined patterns that are commonly useful. To -use a named pattern, use the syntax `{name}`. Names are case-insensitive and -mostly ignore spaces, underscores, and dashes. - -- `..` - Any character (note that a single `.` would mean the literal period - character). -- `digit` - A unicode digit -- `email` - an email address -- `emoji` - an emoji -- `end` - the very end of the text -- `id` - A unicode identifier -- `int` - One or more digits with an optional `-` (minus sign) in front -- `ip` - an IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) -- `ipv4` - an IPv4 address -- `ipv6` - an IPv6 address -- `nl`/`newline`/`crlf` - A line break (either `\r\n` or `\n`) -- `num` - One or more digits with an optional `-` (minus sign) in front and an optional `.` and more digits after -- `start` - the very start of the text -- `uri` - a URI -- `url` - a URL (URI that specifically starts with `http://`, `https://`, `ws://`, `wss://`, or `ftp://`) -- `word` - A unicode identifier (same as `id`) - -For non-alphabetic characters, any single character is treated as matching -exactly that character. For example, `{1{}` matches exactly one `{` -character. Or, `{1.}` matches exactly one `.` character. - -Patterns can also use any Unicode property name. Some helpful ones are: - -- `hex` - Hexidecimal digits -- `lower` - Lowercase letters -- `space` - The space character -- `upper` - Uppercase letters -- `whitespace` - Whitespace characters - -Patterns may also use exact Unicode codepoint names. For example: `{1 latin -small letter A}` matches `a`. - -## Negating Patterns - -If an exclamation mark (`!`) is placed before a pattern's name, then characters -are matched only when they _don't_ match the pattern. For example, `{!alpha}` -will match all characters _except_ alphabetic ones. - -## Interpolating Text and Escaping - -To escape a character in a pattern (e.g. if you want to match the literal -character `?`), you can use the syntax `{1 ?}`. This is almost never necessary -unless you have text that looks like a Tomo text pattern and has something like -`{` or `(?)` inside it. - -However, if you're trying to do an exact match of arbitrary text values, you'll -want to have the text automatically escaped. Fortunately, Tomo's injection-safe -DSL text interpolation supports automatic text escaping. This means that if you -use text interpolation with the `$` sign to insert a text value, the value will -be automatically escaped using the `{1 ?}` rule described above: - -```tomo -# Risk of code injection (would cause an error because 'xxx' is not a valid -# pattern name: ->> user_input := get_user_input() -= "{xxx}" - -# Interpolation automatically escapes: ->> $/$user_input/ -= $/{1{}..xxx}/ - -# This is: `{ 1{ }` (one open brace) followed by the literal text "..xxx}" - -# No error: ->> some_text:find($/$user_input/) -= 0 -``` - -If you prefer, you can also use this to insert literal characters: - -```tomo ->> $/literal $"{..}"/ -= $/literal {1{}..}/ -``` - -## Repetitions - -By default, named patterns match 1 or more repetitions, but you can specify how -many repetitions you want by putting a number or range of numbers first using -`n` (exactly `n` repetitions), `n-m` (between `n` and `m` repetitions), or `n+` -(`n` or more repetitions): - -``` -{4-5 alpha} -0x{hex} -{4 digit}-{2 digit}-{2 digit} -{2+ space} -{0-1 question mark} -``` +Texts use a custom pattern matching syntax for text matching and replacement as +a lightweight, but powerful alternative to regular expressions. See [the +pattern documentation](patterns.md) for more details. # Text Functions @@ -515,7 +371,7 @@ func by_match(text: Text, pattern: Pattern -> func(->Match?)) **Parameters:** - `text`: The text to be iterated over looking for matches. -- `pattern`: The pattern to look for. +- `pattern`: The [pattern](patterns.md) to look for. **Returns:** An iterator function that returns one match result at a time, until it runs out @@ -546,7 +402,7 @@ func by_split(text: Text, pattern: Pattern = $// -> func(->Text?)) **Parameters:** - `text`: The text to be iterated over in pattern-delimited chunks. -- `pattern`: The pattern to split the text on. +- `pattern`: The [pattern](patterns.md) to split the text on. **Returns:** An iterator function that returns one chunk of text at a time, separated by the @@ -639,6 +495,37 @@ An array of 32-bit integer Unicode code points (`[Int32]`). --- +## `each` + +**Description:** +Iterates over each match of a [pattern](patterns.md) and passes the match to +the given function. + +**Signature:** +```tomo +func each(text: Text, pattern: Pattern, fn: func(m: Match), recursive: Bool = yes -> Int?) +``` + +**Parameters:** + +- `text`: The text to be searched. +- `pattern`: The [pattern](patterns.md) to search for. +- `fn`: A function to be called on each match that was found. +- `recursive`: For each match, if recursive is set to `yes`, then call `each()` + recursively on its captures before calling `fn` on the match. + +**Returns:** +None. + +**Example:** +```tomo +>> " #one #two #three ":each($/#{word}/, func(m:Match): + say("Found word $(m.captures[1])") +) +``` + +--- + ## `ends_with` **Description:** @@ -780,8 +667,8 @@ A new text based on the input UTF8 bytes after normalization has been applied. ## `find` **Description:** -Finds the first occurrence of a pattern in the given text (if any). -See: [Patterns](#Patterns) for more information on patterns. +Finds the first occurrence of a [pattern](patterns.md) in the given text (if +any). **Signature:** ```tomo @@ -791,12 +678,12 @@ func find(text: Text, pattern: Pattern, start: Int = 1 -> Int?) **Parameters:** - `text`: The text to be searched. -- `pattern`: The pattern to search for. +- `pattern`: The [pattern](patterns.md) to search for. - `start`: The index to start the search. **Returns:** -`!Match` if the target pattern is not found, otherwise a `Match` struct -containing information about the match. +`!Match` if the target [pattern](patterns.md) is not found, otherwise a `Match` +struct containing information about the match. **Example:** ```tomo @@ -815,8 +702,7 @@ containing information about the match. ## `find_all` **Description:** -Finds all occurrences of a pattern in the given text. -See: [Patterns](#Patterns) for more information on patterns. +Finds all occurrences of a [pattern](patterns.md) in the given text. **Signature:** ```tomo @@ -826,10 +712,10 @@ func find_all(text: Text, pattern: Pattern -> [Match]) **Parameters:** - `text`: The text to be searched. -- `pattern`: The pattern to search for. +- `pattern`: The [pattern](patterns.md) to search for. **Returns:** -An array of every match of the pattern in the given text. +An array of every match of the [pattern](patterns.md) in the given text. Note: if `text` or `pattern` is empty, an empty array will be returned. **Example:** @@ -887,7 +773,7 @@ the length of the string. ## `has` **Description:** -Checks if the `Text` contains a target pattern (see: [Patterns](#Patterns)). +Checks if the `Text` contains a target [pattern](patterns.md). **Signature:** ```tomo @@ -897,7 +783,7 @@ func has(text: Text, pattern: Pattern -> Bool) **Parameters:** - `text`: The text to be searched. -- `pattern`: The pattern to search for. +- `pattern`: The [pattern](patterns.md) to search for. **Returns:** `yes` if the target pattern is found, `no` otherwise. @@ -1004,9 +890,9 @@ The lowercase version of the text. ## `matches` **Description:** -Checks if the `Text` matches target pattern (see: [Patterns](#Patterns)) and -returns an array of the matching text captures or a null value if the entire -text doesn't match the pattern. +Checks if the `Text` matches target [pattern](patterns.md) and returns an array +of the matching text captures or a null value if the entire text doesn't match +the pattern. **Signature:** ```tomo @@ -1016,7 +902,7 @@ func matches(text: Text, pattern: Pattern -> [Text]) **Parameters:** - `text`: The text to be searched. -- `pattern`: The pattern to search for. +- `pattern`: The [pattern](patterns.md) to search for. **Returns:** An array of the matching text captures if the entire text matches the pattern, @@ -1036,19 +922,21 @@ or a null value otherwise. ## `map` **Description:** -For each occurrence of the given pattern, replace the text with the result of -calling the given function on that match. +For each occurrence of the given [pattern](patterns.md), replace the text with +the result of calling the given function on that match. **Signature:** ```tomo -func map(text: Text, pattern: Pattern, fn: func(text:Match)->Text -> Text) +func map(text: Text, pattern: Pattern, fn: func(text:Match)->Text -> Text, recursive: Bool = yes) ``` **Parameters:** - `text`: The text to be searched. -- `pattern`: The pattern to search for. +- `pattern`: The [pattern](patterns.md) to search for. - `fn`: The function to apply to each match. +- `recursive`: Whether to recursively map `fn` to each of the captures of the + pattern before handing them to `fn`. **Returns:** The text with the matching parts replaced with the result of applying the given @@ -1119,9 +1007,8 @@ The text repeated the given number of times. ## `replace` **Description:** -Replaces occurrences of a pattern in the text with a replacement string. - -See [Patterns](#patterns) for more information about patterns. +Replaces occurrences of a [pattern](patterns.md) in the text with a replacement +string. **Signature:** ```tomo @@ -1131,7 +1018,7 @@ func replace(text: Text, pattern: Pattern, replacement: Text, backref: Pattern = **Parameters:** - `text`: The text in which to perform replacements. -- `pattern`: The pattern to be replaced. +- `pattern`: The [pattern](patterns.md) to be replaced. - `replacement`: The text to replace the pattern with. - `backref`: If non-empty, the replacement text will have occurrences of this pattern followed by a number replaced with the corresponding backreference. @@ -1186,11 +1073,12 @@ The text with occurrences of the pattern replaced. ## `replace_all` **Description:** -Takes a table mapping patterns to replacement texts and performs all the -replacements in the table on the whole text. At each position, the first -matching pattern's replacement is applied and the pattern matching moves on to -*after* the replacement text, so replacement text is not recursively modified. -See [`replace()`](#replace) for more information about replacement behavior. +Takes a table mapping [patterns](patterns.md) to replacement texts and performs +all the replacements in the table on the whole text. At each position, the +first matching pattern's replacement is applied and the pattern matching moves +on to *after* the replacement text, so replacement text is not recursively +modified. See [`replace()`](#replace) for more information about replacement +behavior. **Signature:** ```tomo @@ -1200,8 +1088,8 @@ func replace_all(replacements:{Pattern,Text}, backref: Pattern = $/\/, recursive **Parameters:** - `text`: The text in which to perform replacements. -- `replacements`: A table mapping from patterns to the replacement text - associated with that pattern. +- `replacements`: A table mapping from [pattern](patterns.md) to the + replacement text associated with that pattern. - `backref`: If non-empty, the replacement text will have occurrences of this pattern followed by a number replaced with the corresponding backreference. By default, the backreference pattern is a single backslash, so @@ -1295,8 +1183,7 @@ the string. ## `split` **Description:** -Splits the text into an array of substrings based on a pattern. -See [Patterns](#patterns) for more information about patterns. +Splits the text into an array of substrings based on a [pattern](patterns.md). **Signature:** ```tomo @@ -1306,8 +1193,8 @@ func split(text: Text, pattern: Pattern = "" -> [Text]) **Parameters:** - `text`: The text to be split. -- `pattern`: The pattern used to split the text. If the pattern is the empty - string, the text will be split into individual grapheme clusters. +- `pattern`: The [pattern](patterns.md) used to split the text. If the pattern + is the empty string, the text will be split into individual grapheme clusters. **Returns:** An array of substrings resulting from the split. @@ -1415,8 +1302,7 @@ the string. ## `trim` **Description:** -Trims the matching pattern from the left and/or right side of the text -See [Patterns](#patterns) for more information about patterns. +Trims the matching [pattern](patterns.md) from the left and/or right side of the text. **Signature:** ```tomo @@ -1426,7 +1312,7 @@ func trim(text: Text, pattern: Pattern = $/{whitespace/, trim_left: Bool = yes, **Parameters:** - `text`: The text to be trimmed. -- `pattern`: The pattern that will be trimmed away. +- `pattern`: The [pattern](patterns.md) that will be trimmed away. - `trim_left`: Whether or not to trim from the front of the text. - `trim_right`: Whether or not to trim from the back of the text. |
