interface/wx/regex.h

   1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   2 // Name:        regex.h
   3 // Purpose:     interface of wxRegEx
   4 // Author:      wxWidgets team
   5 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
   6 // Licence:     wxWindows license
   7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   8
   9 /**
  10     @anchor wxRE_FLAGS
  11
  12     Flags for regex compilation to be used with wxRegEx::Compile().
  13 */
  14 enum
  15 {
  16     /** Use extended regex syntax. */
  17     wxRE_EXTENDED = 0,
  18
  19     /** Use advanced RE syntax (built-in regex only). */
  20     wxRE_ADVANCED = 1,
  21
  22     /** Use basic RE syntax. */
  23     wxRE_BASIC    = 2,
  24
  25     /** Ignore case in match. */
  26     wxRE_ICASE    = 4,
  27
  28     /** Only check match, don't set back references. */
  29     wxRE_NOSUB    = 8,
  30
  31     /**
  32         If not set, treat '\n' as an ordinary character, otherwise it is
  33         special: it is not matched by '.' and '^' and '$' always match
  34         after/before it regardless of the setting of wxRE_NOT[BE]OL.
  35     */
  36     wxRE_NEWLINE  = 16,
  37
  38     /** Default flags.*/
  39     wxRE_DEFAULT  = wxRE_EXTENDED
  40 };
  41
  42 /**
  43     @anchor wxRE_NOT_FLAGS
  44
  45     Flags for regex matching to be used with wxRegEx::Matches().
  46     These flags are mainly useful when doing several matches in a long string
  47     to prevent erroneous matches for '^' and '$':
  48 */
  49 enum
  50 {
  51     /** '^' doesn't match at the start of line. */
  52     wxRE_NOTBOL = 32,
  53
  54     /** '$' doesn't match at the end of line. */
  55     wxRE_NOTEOL = 64
  56 };
  57
  58 /**
  59     @class wxRegEx
  60
  61     wxRegEx represents a regular expression.  This class provides support
  62     for regular expressions matching and also replacement.
  63
  64     It is built on top of either the system library (if it has support
  65     for POSIX regular expressions - which is the case of the most modern
  66     Unices) or uses the built in Henry Spencer's library.  Henry Spencer
  67     would appreciate being given credit in the documentation of software
  68     which uses his library, but that is not a requirement.
  69
  70     Regular expressions, as defined by POSIX, come in two flavours: @e extended
  71     and @e basic.  The builtin library also adds a third flavour
  72     of expression @ref overview_resyntax "advanced", which is not available
  73     when using the system library.
  74
  75     Unicode is fully supported only when using the builtin library.
  76     When using the system library in Unicode mode, the expressions and data
  77     are translated to the default 8-bit encoding before being passed to
  78     the library.
  79
  80     On platforms where a system library is available, the default is to use
  81     the builtin library for Unicode builds, and the system library otherwise.
  82     It is possible to use the other if preferred by selecting it when building
  83     the wxWidgets.
  84
  85     @library{wxbase}
  86     @category{data}
  87
  88     Examples:
  89
  90     A bad example of processing some text containing email addresses (the example
  91     is bad because the real email addresses can have more complicated form than
  92     @c user@host.net):
  93
  94     @code
  95     wxString text;
  96     ...
  97     wxRegEx reEmail = "([^@]+)@([[:alnum:].-_].)+([[:alnum:]]+)";
  98     if ( reEmail.Matches(text) )
  99     {
 100         wxString text = reEmail.GetMatch(email);
 101         wxString username = reEmail.GetMatch(email, 1);
 102         if ( reEmail.GetMatch(email, 3) == "com" ) // .com TLD?
 103         {
 104             ...
 105         }
 106     }
 107
 108     // or we could do this to hide the email address
 109     size_t count = reEmail.ReplaceAll(text, "HIDDEN@\\2\\3");
 110     printf("text now contains %u hidden addresses", count);
 111     @endcode
 112 */
 113 class wxRegEx
 114 {
 115 public:
 116
 117     /**
 118         Default constructor: use Compile() later.
 119     */
 120     wxRegEx();
 121
 122     /**
 123         Create and compile the regular expression, use
 124         IsValid() to test for compilation errors.
 125
 126         As for the flags, please see @ref wxRE_FLAGS.
 127     */
 128     wxRegEx(const wxString& expr, int flags = wxRE_DEFAULT);
 129
 130
 131     /**
 132         Destructor. It's not virtual, don't derive from this class.
 133     */
 134     ~wxRegEx();
 135
 136     /**
 137         Compile the string into regular expression, return @true if ok or @false
 138         if string has a syntax error.
 139
 140         As for the flags, please see @ref wxRE_FLAGS.
 141     */
 142     bool Compile(const wxString& pattern, int flags = wxRE_DEFAULT);
 143
 144     /**
 145         Get the start index and the length of the match of the expression
 146         (if @a index is 0) or a bracketed subexpression (@a index different from 0).
 147
 148         May only be called after successful call to Matches() and only if @c wxRE_NOSUB
 149         was @b not used in Compile().
 150
 151         Returns @false if no match or if an error occurred.
 152
 153     */
 154     bool GetMatch(size_t* start, size_t* len, size_t index = 0) const;
 155
 156     /**
 157         Returns the part of string corresponding to the match where index is interpreted
 158         as above. Empty string is returned if match failed.
 159
 160         May only be called after successful call to Matches() and only if @c wxRE_NOSUB
 161         was @b not used in Compile().
 162     */
 163     wxString  GetMatch(const wxString& text, size_t index = 0) const;
 164
 165     /**
 166         Returns the size of the array of matches, i.e. the number of bracketed
 167         subexpressions plus one for the expression itself, or 0 on error.
 168
 169         May only be called after successful call to Compile().
 170         and only if @c wxRE_NOSUB was @b not used.
 171     */
 172     size_t GetMatchCount() const;
 173
 174     /**
 175         Return @true if this is a valid compiled regular expression, @false
 176         otherwise.
 177     */
 178     bool IsValid() const;
 179
 180     //@{
 181     /**
 182         Matches the precompiled regular expression against the string @a text,
 183         returns @true if matches and @false otherwise.
 184
 185         @e Flags may be combination of @c wxRE_NOTBOL and @c wxRE_NOTEOL, see
 186         @ref wxRE_NOT_FLAGS.
 187
 188         Some regex libraries assume that the text given is null terminated, while
 189         others require the length be given as a separate parameter. Therefore for
 190         maximum portability assume that @a text cannot contain embedded nulls.
 191
 192         When the <b>Matches(const wxChar *text, int flags = 0)</b> form is used,
 193         a wxStrlen() will be done internally if the regex library requires the
 194         length. When using Matches() in a loop the <b>Matches(text, flags, len)</b>
 195         form can be used instead, making it possible to avoid a wxStrlen() inside
 196         the loop.
 197
 198         May only be called after successful call to Compile().
 199     */
 200     bool Matches(const wxChar* text, int flags = 0) const;
 201     bool Matches(const wxChar* text, int flags, size_t len) const;
 202     //@}
 203
 204     /**
 205         Matches the precompiled regular expression against the string @a text,
 206         returns @true if matches and @false otherwise.
 207
 208         @e Flags may be combination of @c wxRE_NOTBOL and @c wxRE_NOTEOL, see
 209         @ref wxRE_NOT_FLAGS.
 210
 211         May only be called after successful call to Compile().
 212     */
 213     bool Matches(const wxString& text, int flags = 0) const;
 214
 215     /**
 216         Replaces the current regular expression in the string pointed to by
 217         @a text, with the text in @a replacement and return number of matches
 218         replaced (maybe 0 if none found) or -1 on error.
 219
 220         The replacement text may contain back references @c \\number which will be
 221         replaced with the value of the corresponding subexpression in the
 222         pattern match. @c \\0 corresponds to the entire match and @c \& is a
 223         synonym for it. Backslash may be used to quote itself or @c \& character.
 224
 225         @a maxMatches may be used to limit the number of replacements made, setting
 226         it to 1, for example, will only replace first occurrence (if any) of the
 227         pattern in the text while default value of 0 means replace all.
 228     */
 229     int Replace(wxString* text, const wxString& replacement,
 230                 size_t maxMatches = 0) const;
 231
 232     /**
 233         Replace all occurrences: this is actually a synonym for
 234         Replace().
 235
 236         @see ReplaceFirst()
 237     */
 238     int ReplaceAll(wxString* text, const wxString& replacement) const;
 239
 240     /**
 241         Replace the first occurrence.
 242     */
 243     int ReplaceFirst(wxString* text, const wxString& replacement) const;
 244 };
 245