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I would like to compose regexps, that is reusing a regex in a new regex.
Is that possible in Ruby ?
For instance, in order to simplify this assembly-like parsing :
LABELED_INSTR = /(\w+):(movi|addi)\s+(\w+),(\w+),(w+)/
NON_LABELED_INSTR = /(movi|addi)\s+(\w+),(\w+),(w+)/
I would like to resort to :
IMMEDIATE = /(movi|addi)/
But then I don't know how to share this regex in the two previous ones.
Any hint ?
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If you want to match for the actual '+', '. ' etc characters, add a backslash( \ ) before that character. This will tell the computer to treat the following character as a search character and consider it for matching pattern. Example : \d+[\+-x\*]\d+ will match patterns like "2+2" and "3*9" in "(2+2) * 3*9".
$ means "Match the end of the string" (the position after the last character in the string).
Basically (0+1)* mathes any sequence of ones and zeroes. So, in your example (0+1)*1(0+1)* should match any sequence that has 1. It would not match 000 , but it would match 010 , 1 , 111 etc. (0+1) means 0 OR 1.
A regular expression (shortened as regex or regexp; sometimes referred to as rational expression) is a sequence of characters that specifies a search pattern in text. Usually such patterns are used by string-searching algorithms for "find" or "find and replace" operations on strings, or for input validation.
Sure, regular expressions can be reused (or composed) within other regexes. Here's an example that combines two regexes to make a third:
>> a = /boo/
=> boo
>> b = /foo/
=> foo
>> c = /#{a}|#{b}/
=> -mix:boo-mix:foo
>> if "boo" =~ c
>> puts "match!"
>> end
match!
=> nil
Your example is pretty similar. Here, it would be:
IMMEDIATE = /(movi|addi)/
LABELED_INSTR = /(\w+):#{IMMEDIATE}\s+(\w+),(\w+),(w+)/
NON_LABELED_INSTR = /#{IMMEDIATE}\s+(\w+),(\w+),(w+)/
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