Regex in ctfe?

[Philippe Sigaud via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 01:34:09 UTC, Manu wrote:
> Possible to std.regex in ctfe?
(...)
> I have a string import destined for a mixin, and I want to 
> parse it with regex, but I haven't been able to make it work. 
> The docs mention nothing about this possibility.

Hi Manu,

a possible solution for that would be to use my Pegged 
(https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/Pegged) project. It's a parser 
generator that creates compile-time (and runtime) parsers. It's 
not directly compatible with Phobos regexes, but it's quite easy 
to extract the matched strings.

Bastiaan Veelo recently added support for left-recursive 
grammars, which means we can now generate parsers for many more 
grammars (although if your parsing need is covered by regexes, 
that probably won't interest you...)


Philippe