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johannes karoff
@cornerman
@nrinaudo in general i agree but it is not really a url. we have a SPA app running in the browser, which writes its current options to the hash-part of the url. the options are key-value pairs and similar to an url with regards to being a sequence of key-value pairs separated by & and =. so a dedicated uri parsing library would not really fit.
Nicolas Rinaudo
@nrinaudo
and as for your example, I'll need to see your code, because I don't think I understand what you're saying:
"abc:123".evalRegex[(String, String)](rx"(\w+)(:\d+)*").next
res1: kantan.regex.DecodeResult[(String, String)] = Right((abc,:123))
johannes karoff
@cornerman
yes, your example works, but if you have no match for (:\d+)*, it does not work:
"abc".evalRegex[(String, String)](rx"(\w+)(:\d+)*").next
res1: kantan.regex.DecodeResult[(String, String)] = Left(EmptyGroup: an empty group was found)
Nicolas Rinaudo
@nrinaudo
well yeah - the second group is not matched
so you get a match with a single group, which is what this is telling you
you have basically two choices there:
  • make the second group optional
  • make slightly more complicated groups (this would also allow you to ignore the :, which I'm assuming is desirable but I might be wrong)
johannes karoff
@cornerman
but semantically an empty string is a match for something* in a regex, isn't it?
Nicolas Rinaudo
@nrinaudo
you don't have an empty string. You have nothing
wait, what do you think the : means in your regex?
is that a separator, or did you think it means "non-capturing group"?
johannes karoff
@cornerman
no, just a separator
Nicolas Rinaudo
@nrinaudo
right
johannes karoff
@cornerman
i was under the impression, i could have a Regex[(String, Option[String])] from a *. just like from a ?. because both can yield an empty result
Nicolas Rinaudo
@nrinaudo
so then:
"abc:".evalRegex[(String, String)](rx"(\w+)(:\d*)").next
johannes karoff
@cornerman
but that is not what I want to match
Nicolas Rinaudo
@nrinaudo
but let's take it from the top. What are you precisely trying to do?
you can absolutely get an option from a * (I think), it's just that your regex requires : which your input doesn't contain
johannes karoff
@cornerman
oh, actually i really can!
sorry! it just works, i just made a mistake in my code :/
Nicolas Rinaudo
@nrinaudo
I understand what the first part of the regex is - you want a word as a key. The second part is more obscure. Do you require a :? If not but if it's present, can the \d sequence be empty?
oh, ok then
glad I could help, even if I'm not sure how!
johannes karoff
@cornerman
thank you for your time!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging :)
Stefan Endrullis
@xylo

In case that someone uses Intellij IDEA: I just added support for kantan.regex to my plugin called Custom Postfix Templates. It allows you to easily expand

"abc:".evalRegex

to

"abc:".evalRegex(rx"")

by automatically adding

import kantan.regex._
import kantan.regex.implicits._
import kantan.regex.generic._

to your imports.

Moreover,

"xyz".rx

is expanded to

rx"xyz"

also by adding the import.

Please let me know if I can improve these postfix templates.