regen

regen

Compile-time regular expression parsing for go-lang.

regen generates a custom regular expression matching function for a given pattern. It can be used with go generate. This is currently a proof of concept: it does not support all of the common regular expression meta-characters and the matching implementation can be made much faster.

The current implementation is based on Regular Expression Matching: the Virtual Machine Approach by Russ Cox.

#TODOs

• Implement character classes and wildcards.
• Implement different backends (like the D-lang regex library in phobos)