regex-applicative: Regex-based parsing with applicative interface

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regex-applicative is a Haskell library for parsing using regular expressions. Parsers can be built using Applicative interface.


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Dependencies base (<5), containers, filtrable (>=0.1.3), transformers [details]
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Author Roman Cheplyaka
Maintainer Roman Cheplyaka <roma@ro-che.info>
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Home page https://github.com/feuerbach/regex-applicative
Source repo head: git clone git://github.com/feuerbach/regex-applicative.git
Uploaded by RomanCheplyaka at 2020-07-24T09:45:48Z
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Readme for regex-applicative-0.3.4

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regex-applicative

regex-applicative is a parsing combinator library for Haskell based on regular expressions.

Example

import Text.Regex.Applicative

data Protocol = HTTP | FTP deriving Show

protocol :: RE Char Protocol
protocol = HTTP <$ string "http" <|> FTP <$ string "ftp"

type Host = String
type Location = String
data URL = URL Protocol Host Location deriving Show

host :: RE Char Host
host = many $ psym $ (/= '/')

url :: RE Char URL
url = URL <$> protocol <* string "://" <*> host <* sym '/' <*> many anySym

main = print $ "http://stackoverflow.com/questions" =~ url

Documentation

See the API reference.

Performance

For common tasks, this package is several times slower than monadic parser combinator libraries like parsec. However, this library has a roughly linear complexity, whereas monadic parser combinators have exponential worst-time complexity (see here).

Some tips to make your regex run faster:

  1. If you don't care about the result of the whole regex or its part, only whether it matches or not, mark it with void or <$. Recognition is faster than parsing.

  2. If you apply the same regex to multiple strings, partially apply it like so:

    let matcher = match my_regex
    in  map matcher my_strings
    

    This way the compiled regex is stored in the matcher value and shared among the strings.

GHC support

Only GHC versions >= 8.0 are supported, although older versions may work too.