Tutorial by Examples: pcre

CL-PPCRE:REGISTER-GROUPS-BIND will match a string against a regular expression, and if it matches, bind register groups in the regex to variables. If the string does not match, NIL is returned. (defun parse-date-string (date-string) (cl-ppcre:register-groups-bind (year month day) (...

perl -ne'print if /foo/' file.txt Case-insensitive: perl -ne'print if /foo/i' file.txt

perl -pe"s/foo/bar/g" file.txt Or in-place: perl -i -pe's/foo/bar/g' file.txt On Windows: perl -i.bak -pe"s/foo/bar/g" file.txt

In PCRE, matched groups used for backreferences before a recursion are kept in the recursion. But after the recursion they all reset to what they were before entering it. In other words, matched groups in the recursion are all forgotten. For example: (?J)(?(DEFINE)(\g{a}(?<a>b)\g{a}))(?<a...

In PCRE, it doesn't trackback after the first match for a recursion is found. So (?(DEFINE)(aaa|aa|a))(?1)ab doesn't match aab because after it matched aa in the recursion, it never try again to match only a.

The PCRE-compliant PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY modifier that makes the $ anchor match at the very end of the string (excluding the position before the final newline in the string). /^\d+$/D is equal to /^\d+\z/ and matches a whole string that consists of 1 or more digits and will not match "123...

Another PCRE-compliant modifier expressed with /A modifier. If this modifier is set, the pattern is forced to be "anchored", that is, it is constrained to match only at the start of the string which is being searched (the "subject string"). This effect can also be achieved by ap...

The PCRE-compliant PCRE_UNGREEDY flag expressed with /U. It switches greediness inside a pattern: /a.*?b/U = /a.*b/ and vice versa.

One more PCRE modifier that allows the use of duplicate named groups. NOTE: only inline version is supported - (?J), and must be placed at the start of the pattern. If you use /(?J)\w+-(?:new-(?<val>\w+)|\d+-empty-(?<val>[^-]+)-collection)/ the "val" group values will be ...

A PCRE modifier that causes an error if any backslash in a pattern is followed by a letter that has no special meaning. By default, a backslash followed by a letter with no special meaning is treated as a literal. E.g. /big\y/ will match bigy, but /big\y/X will throw an exception. Inline v...

This implementation of IDatabaseInitializer drops and recreates the database if the model changes automatically. Usage: public class MyContext : DbContext { public MyContext() { Database.SetInitializer(new DropCreateDatabaseIfModelChanges<MyContext>()); } }

This implementation of IDatabaseInitializer drops and recreates the database everytime your context is used in applications app domain. Beware of the data loss due to the fact, that the database is recreated. Usage: public class MyContext : DbContext { public MyContext() { Database.S...