Pegex::Regex (3)

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NAME

Pegex::Regex - Use Pegex Like a Regex

SYNOPSIS

    {
        # Turn on Pegex regular expressions in lexical scope.
        use Pegex::Regex;
        my $grammar = qr{$grammar_text}x;
        $text =~ $grammar;
        my $result = \%/;

        # Turn off Pegex in this scope.
        no Pegex::Regex;
    }

DESCRIPTION

This is a trivial sugar module that lets you use Pegex parser grammars like regular expressions, if you're into that kind of thing.

This is basically a clone of Damian Conway's Regexp::Grammars module

You put a grammar into a "qr{...}x" and apply it the input string you want to parse. If the parse is successful, you get a data structure of the content in "%/".

building a recursive decscent parser entirely inside of a regular expression, is not the clearest way to code. But, of course, )

NOTE

This module is just for experimental fun. See Pegex for the right way to use the Pegex parsing framework.

TMTOWTDI

Here's a Pegex::Regex code snippet:

    use Pegex::Regex;
    $text =~ qr{... Pegex grammar text ...};
    $data = \%/;

And the equivalent Pegex code:

    use Pegex;
    my $data = pegex('... Pegex grammar text ...')->parse($text);

WARNING

This gateway drug, er, module, technically should not even work.

It turns your ``grammar inside a regexp'' into a Pegex::Grammar using qr{} overloading, and then turns your regexp itself into a shim that calls the parse method for you. This is highly magical and technically makes a reentrant call to the regex engine, which is not supported yet. Use at your own risk.

Better yet, do yourself a favor and learn how to use the Pegex toolset without this ::Regex sugar. ":-)"

SEE ALSO

*

Pegex

*

Regexp::Grammars

AUTHOR

Ingy döt Net <ingy@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2010-2017. Ingy döt Net.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See <www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>