NAME

String::Query::To::Regexp - Convert query to regular expression

VERSION

This document describes version 0.003 of String::Query::To::Regexp (from Perl distribution String-Query-To-Regexp), released on 2022-11-02.

SYNOPSIS

use String::Query::To::Regexp qw(query2re);

my $re;

$re = query2re("foo");                       # => qr/\A(?=.*foo).*\z/s   -> string must contain 'foo'
$re = query2re({ci=>1}, "foo";               # => qr/\A(?=.*foo).*\z/is  -> string must contain 'foo', case-insensitively
$re = query2re("foo", "bar");                # => qr/\A(?=.*foo)(?=.*bar).*\z/s   -> string must contain 'foo' and 'bar', order does not matter
$re = query2re("foo", "-bar");               # => qr/\A(?=.*foo)(?!.*bar).*\z/s   -> string must contain 'foo' but must not contain 'bar'
$re = query2re({bool=>"or"}, "foo", "bar");  # => qr/\A(?:(?=.*foo)|(?!.*bar)).*\z/s  -> string must contain 'foo' or 'bar'
$re = query2re({word=>1}, "foo", "bar");     # => qr/\A(?=.*\bfoo\b)(?!.*\bbar\b).*\z/s  -> string must contain words 'foo' and 'bar'; 'food' or 'lumbar' won't match

$re = query2re({re=>1}, "foo", "/bar+/", qr/baz/i);  # => qr/(?^s:\A(?=.*foo\+)(?=.*(?^i:bar+))(?=.*(?^u:baz+)).*\z)/  -> allow regexes in queries

DESCRIPTION

This module provides "query2re" function to convert one or more string queries to a regular expression. Features of the queries:

  • Negative searching using the -FOO syntax

FUNCTIONS

query2re

Usage:

my $re = query2re([ \%opts , ] @query);

Create a regular expression object from query @query.

Known options:

  • bool

    Str. Default and. Either and or or.

  • word

    Bool. Default false. If set to true, queries must be separate words.

  • ci

    Bool. Default false. If set to true, will do case-insensitive matching

  • re

    Bool. Default false. If set to true, will allow regexes in @query as well as converting string queries of the form /foo/ to regex using Regexp::From::String.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/String-Query-To-Regexp.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-String-Query-To-Regexp.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTING

To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub.

Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via:

% prove -l

If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, Pod::Weaver::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla- and/or Pod::Weaver plugins. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2022 by perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=String-Query-To-Regexp

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.