regexp)Regexp tools for arrays / lists of strings
regexp provides a few tools for text matching and manipulation against an array or list of strings - thus regexp is Murex data-type aware.
<stdin> -> regexp expression -> <stdout>Where expression consists of the following
function separator pattern [ separator parameter2 ]m, s or f)/, #, ▷, 🙂) however regexp parameters can also be passed as shell parameters (eg s search replace)» ja [monday..sunday] -> regexp 'f/^([a-z]{3})day/'
[
"mon",
"fri",
"sun"
]This returns only 3 days because only 3 days match the expression (where the days have to be 6 characters long) and then it only returns the first 3 characters because those are inside the parenthesis.
» ja [monday..sunday] -> regexp 'm/(mon|fri|sun)day/'
[
"monday",
"friday",
"sunday"
]» ja [monday..sunday] -> !regexp 'm/(mon|fri|sun)day/'
[
"tuesday",
"wednesday",
"thursday",
"saturday"
]» ps -fe -> regexp 'M/murex/'
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
501 39631 39630 0 6:48pm ?? 0:04.31 -murex
501 57496 17220 0 11:59pm ?? 0:02.90 ./murex
501 41982 17219 0 10:53pm ttys000 0:39.73 -murex
501 17220 17219 0 2:09pm ttys002 1:44.06 -murex » ja [monday..sunday] -> regexp 's/day/night/'
[
"monnight",
"tuesnight",
"wednesnight",
"thursnight",
"frinight",
"saturnight",
"sunnight"
]M output first element (eg table headings), followed by any elements that match (supports bang prefix)f output found expressions (doesn’t support bang prefix)m output elements that match expression (supports bang prefix)s output all elements, substituting elements that match expression (doesn’t support bang prefix)regexp is data-type aware so will work against lists or arrays of whichever Murex data-type is passed to it via stdin and return the output in the same data-type.
If you want to exclude any matches based on wildcards, rather than include them, then you can use the bang prefix. For example if you wanted to exclude any days of the week that contained the letter s:
» %[Monday..Friday] -> !regexp m/s/
[
"Monday",
"Friday"
]Murex regex expressions are based on Go’s stdlib regexp library.
The syntax of the regular expressions accepted is the same general syntax used by Perl, Python, and other languages. More precisely, it is the syntax accepted by RE2 and described at https://golang.org/s/re2syntax, except for
\C.The regexp implementation provided by this package is guaranteed to run in time linear in the size of the input. (This is a property not guaranteed by most open source implementations of regular expressions.) For more information about this property, see https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html or any book about automata theory.
All characters are UTF-8-encoded code points. Each byte of an invalid UTF-8 sequence is treated as if it encoded as U+FFFD.
. any character, possibly including newline (flag s=true)
[xyz] character class
[^xyz] negated character class
\d Perl character class
\D negated Perl character class
[[:alpha:]] ASCII character class
[[:^alpha:]] negated ASCII character class
\pN Unicode character class (one-letter name)
\p{Greek} Unicode character class
\PN negated Unicode character class (one-letter name)
\P{Greek} negated Unicode character classxy x followed by y
x|y x or y (prefer x)x* zero or more x, prefer more
x+ one or more x, prefer more
x? zero or one x, prefer one
x{n,m} n or n+1 or ... or m x, prefer more
x{n,} n or more x, prefer more
x{n} exactly n x
x*? zero or more x, prefer fewer
x+? one or more x, prefer fewer
x?? zero or one x, prefer zero
x{n,m}? n or n+1 or ... or m x, prefer fewer
x{n,}? n or more x, prefer fewer
x{n}? exactly n xThe counting forms x{n,m}, x{n,}, and x{n} reject forms that create a minimum or maximum repetition count above 1000. Unlimited repetitions are not subject to this restriction.
(re) numbered capturing group (submatch)
(?P<name>re) named & numbered capturing group (submatch)
(?<name>re) named & numbered capturing group (submatch)
(?:re) non-capturing group
(?flags) set flags within current group; non-capturing
(?flags:re) set flags during re; non-capturing
Flag syntax is xyz (set) or -xyz (clear) or xy-z (set xy, clear z). The flags are:
i case-insensitive (default false)
m multi-line mode: ^ and $ match begin/end line in addition to begin/end text (default false)
s let . match \n (default false)
U ungreedy: swap meaning of x* and x*?, x+ and x+?, etc (default false)^ at beginning of text or line (flag m=true)
$ at end of text (like \z not \Z) or line (flag m=true)
\A at beginning of text
\b at ASCII word boundary (\w on one side and \W, \A, or \z on the other)
\B not at ASCII word boundary
\z at end of text\a bell (== \007)
\f form feed (== \014)
\t horizontal tab (== \011)
\n newline (== \012)
\r carriage return (== \015)
\v vertical tab character (== \013)
\* literal *, for any punctuation character *
\123 octal character code (up to three digits)
\x7F hex character code (exactly two digits)
\x{10FFFF} hex character code
\Q...\E literal text ... even if ... has punctuationx single character
A-Z character range (inclusive)
\d Perl character class
[:foo:] ASCII character class foo
\p{Foo} Unicode character class Foo
\pF Unicode character class F (one-letter name)[\d] digits (== \d)
[^\d] not digits (== \D)
[\D] not digits (== \D)
[^\D] not not digits (== \d)
[[:name:]] named ASCII class inside character class (== [:name:])
[^[:name:]] named ASCII class inside negated character class (== [:^name:])
[\p{Name}] named Unicode property inside character class (== \p{Name})
[^\p{Name}] named Unicode property inside negated character class (== \P{Name})\d digits (== [0-9])
\D not digits (== [^0-9])
\s whitespace (== [\t\n\f\r ])
\S not whitespace (== [^\t\n\f\r ])
\w word characters (== [0-9A-Za-z_])
\W not word characters (== [^0-9A-Za-z_])[[:alnum:]] alphanumeric (== [0-9A-Za-z])
[[:alpha:]] alphabetic (== [A-Za-z])
[[:ascii:]] ASCII (== [\x00-\x7F])
[[:blank:]] blank (== [\t ])
[[:cntrl:]] control (== [\x00-\x1F\x7F])
[[:digit:]] digits (== [0-9])
[[:graph:]] graphical (== [!-~] == [A-Za-z0-9!"#$%&'()*+,\-./:;<=>?@[\\\]^_`{|}~])
[[:lower:]] lower case (== [a-z])
[[:print:]] printable (== [ -~] == [ [:graph:]])
[[:punct:]] punctuation (== [!-/:-@[-`{-~])
[[:space:]] whitespace (== [\t\n\v\f\r ])
[[:upper:]] upper case (== [A-Z])
[[:word:]] word characters (== [0-9A-Za-z_])
[[:xdigit:]] hex digit (== [0-9A-Fa-f])regexp!regexplist.regex!list.regexprefix): Prefix a string to every item in a listsuffix): Prefix a string to every item in a listappend): Add data to the end of an arraycount): Count items in a map, list or array2darray): Create a 2D JSON array from multiple input sourcesja): A sophisticated yet simply way to build a JSON arraymap): Creates a map from two data sourcesta): A sophisticated yet simple way to build an array of a user defined data-typematch): Match an exact value in an arrayprepend): Add data to the start of an arraymsort): Sorts an array - data type agnosticjsplit): Splits stdin into a JSON array based on a regex parametera): A sophisticated yet simple way to stream an array or list (mkarray)This document was generated from builtins/core/lists/regexp_doc.yaml.
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