README.md

Rhemyn

A basic experimental WIP regex engine/AOT Wasm compiler in JS. Regex engine for Porffor! Uses own regex parser, no dependencies (excluding porffor internals).
Age: ~1 day (of work)

Made for use with Porffor but could possibly be adapted, implementation/library notes:

• Exposes functions for each regex "operation" (eg test, match)
• Given a regex pattern string (eg a+), it returns a "function" object
• Wasm function returned expects an i32 pointer to a UTF-16 string (can add UTF-8 option later if someone else actually wants to use this)

syntax

🟢 supported 🟡 partial 🟠 parsed only 🔴 unsupported

• 🟢 literal characters (eg a)
• 🟢 escaping (eg \.\n\cJ\x0a\u000a)
  • 🟢 character itself (eg \.)
  • 🟢 escape sequences (eg \n)
  • 🟢 control character (eg \cJ)
  • 🟢 unicode code points (eg \x00, \u0000)
• 🟢 sets (eg [ab])
  • 🟢 ranges (eg [a-z])
  • 🟢 negated sets (eg [^ab])
• 🟢 metacharacters
  • 🟢 dot (eg a.b)
  • 🟢 digit, not digit (eg \d\D)
  • 🟢 word, not word (eg \w\W)
  • 🟢 whitespace, not whitespace (eg \s\S)
• 🟡 quantifiers
  • 🟡 star (eg a*)
  • 🟡 plus (eg a+)
  • 🟡 optional (eg a?)
  • 🟠 lazy modifier (eg a*?)
  • 🔴 n repetitions (eg a{4})
  • 🔴 n-m repetitions (eg a{2,4})
• 🟠 groups
  • 🟠 capturing groups ((a))
  • 🔴 non-capturing groups ((?:a))
• 🔴 assertions
  • 🔴 beginning (eg ^a)
  • 🔴 end (eg a$)
  • 🔴 word boundary assertion (eg \b\B)