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rockfordwei/perfect-pcre2

This project provides an easy solution to extract captured groups from a string by a PCRE2 compatible regular expression.

Quick Start

Prerequisites

Swift Version

Swift 4.2+

macOS
$ brew install pcre2
Ubuntu Linux
$ sudo apt-get install libpcre2-dev

Swift Package Manager

Add dependencies to your Package.swift

.package(url: "https://github.com/RockfordWei/Perfect-PCRE2.git", 
	from: "3.1.0")

// on target section:
.target(
            // name: "your project name",
            dependencies: ["PerfectPCRE2"]),

Import Perfect PCRE2 Library

Add the following header to your swift source code:

import PerfectPCRE2

Simple Usage

let lines = try """
	HTTP/1.1 100 continue
	HTTP/1.0 200 OK
""".pcre2Match(pattern: "([A-Z]+)/([0-9.]+)\\s+([0-9]+)\\s+(.*)")

lines.forEach { line in
	print("full: $0", line[0]) // the full match
	print("head: $1", line[1]) // "HTTP"
	print("vers: $2", line[2]) // 1.1 or 1.0
	print("code: $3", line[3]) // 100 or 200
	print("stat: $4", line[4]) // continue or OK
}

Further Information

For more information on the Perfect project, please visit perfect.org.

Package Metadata

Repository: rockfordwei/perfect-pcre2

Default branch: master

README: README.md