relex (a regex lexer)

This crate provides several utilities for creating regex-based lexers. A lexer uses RegexSet's from the regex crate for maximum efficiency. Use this when you want to spin up a lexer quickly.

Here is a quick example to get you started:

use relex::*;

#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
enum MyToken {
  Whitespace,
  ID,
  Float,
  Eof,
  Unrecognized,
}
impl TokenKind for MyToken {
  fn eof() -> Self { MyToken::Eof }
  fn unrecognized() -> Self { MyToken::Unrecognized }
}

let lex = LexerBuilder::new()
  .token(Rule::new(MyToken::Whitespace, r"\s+").unwrap().skip(true))
  .token(Rule::new(MyToken::ID, r"[A-Za-z]+").unwrap())
  .token(Rule::new(MyToken::Float, r"(\d+)(?:\.(\d+))?").unwrap().capture(true)) // this one captures groups
                                                                                 // because it calls `.capture(true)`
  .build();

let mut scanner = lex.iter(" abc", 0);
let token = scanner.next().unwrap();
assert_eq!(token.kind, MyToken::ID);
assert_eq!(token.text, "abc");
assert_eq!(token.skipped[0].kind, MyToken::Whitespace);

Collecting Code Coverage

❯ cargo test
    Finished test [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.01s
     Running unittests (target/debug/deps/relex-f41d18d0b3597fac)
...                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^-- note this executable and then run:
❯ kcov target/cov --include-pattern=relex/src ./target/debug/deps/relex-f41d18d0b3597fac
...
❯ open target/cov/index.html

License (MIT)

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