Text compare with a regular expression

shashika · February 10, 2022, 4:55am

Is there any way to compare Text with a regular expression in Motoko?

paulyoung · February 10, 2022, 5:50am

I don’t think so, but you could write a parser using the parsec package to achieve the same thing.

shashika · February 10, 2022, 5:54am

Thanks for the clarification @paulyoung. Where can I get information about parsec ?

paulyoung · February 10, 2022, 6:13am

See:

It’s in the vessel package set:

https://dfinity.github.io/vessel-package-set/

shashika · February 10, 2022, 6:14am

Thanks @paulyoung . I will take a look.

claudio · February 10, 2022, 8:43pm

https://github.com/kritzcreek/motoko-regex might also be of interest, though I think it was merely meant to illustrate a simple library, not a full fledged regex implementation.