Module Bos_setup.Pat

include module type of struct include Bos.Pat end

Patterns

type t = Bos.Pat.t

The type for patterns.

val v : string -> t

v s is a pattern from the string s.

raises Invalid_argument

if s is not a valid pattern. Use of_string to deal with errors.

val empty : t

empty is an empty pattern.

val dom : t -> Astring.String.Set.t

dom p is the set of variables in p.

val equal : t -> t -> bool

equal p p' is p = p'.

val compare : t -> t -> int

compare p p' is Pervasives.compare p p'.

val of_string : string -> (t, [> Rresult.R.msg ]) Result.result

of_string s parses s according to the pattern syntax (i.e. a literal '$' must be represented by "$$" in s).

val to_string : t -> string

to_string p converts p to a string according to the pattern syntax (i.e. a literal '$' will be represented by "$$").

val pp : Stdlib.Format.formatter -> t -> unit

pp ppf p prints p on ppf according to the pattern syntax.

val dump : Stdlib.Format.formatter -> t -> unit

dump ppf p prints p as a syntactically valid OCaml string on ppf.

Substitution

type defs = string Astring.String.Map.t

Type type for variable definitions. Maps pattern variable names to strings.

val subst : ?⁠undef:(string -> string option) -> defs -> t -> t

subst ~undef defs p tries to substitute variables in p by their value. First a value is looked up in defs and if not found in undef. undef defaults to (fun _ -> None).

val format : ?⁠undef:(string -> string) -> defs -> t -> string

format ~undef defs p substitutes all variables in p with data. First a value is looked up in defs and if not found in undef (defaults to fun _ -> ""). The resulting string is not in pattern syntax (i.e. a literal '$' is represented by '$' in the result).

Matching

val matches : t -> string -> bool

matches p s is true iff the string s matches p. Here are a few examples:

  • matches (v "$(mod).mli") "string.mli" is true.
  • matches (v "$(mod).mli") "string.mli " is false.
  • matches (v "$(mod).mli") ".mli" is true.
  • matches (v "$(mod).$(suff)") "string.mli" is true.
  • matches (v "$(mod).$(suff)") "string.mli " is true.
val query : ?⁠init:defs -> t -> string -> defs option

query ~init p s is like matches except that a matching string returns a map from each pattern variable to its matched part in the string (mappings are added to init, defaults to String.Map.empty) or None if s doesn't match p. If a variable appears more than once in pat the first match is returned in the map.