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Feature request: export regular expressions
I use this piece of software mostly in the context of latex writing a build tool in latex. But I also want to integrate with latexmk which is in perl and also with splitindex which has an implementation in Lua. So I am interested, to read in patterns in java, but export the according in other languages, most notably in perl, python and lua. It would be a great help to just create a pattern in java and then export that pattern as a pattern string as required in the various languages. If impossible to export something equivalent, an exception shall be thrown.
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 1:10 AM Ernst Reissner @.***> wrote:
I use this piece of software mostly in the context of latex writing a build tool in latex. But I also want to integrate with latexmk which is in perl and also with splitindex which has an implementation in Lua. So I am interested, to read in patterns in java, but export the according in other languages, most notably in perl, python and lua. It would be a great help to just create a pattern in java and then export that pattern as a pattern string as required in the various languages. If impossible to export something equivalent, an exception shall be thrown.
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Hm, I feel since this library has all internal structures required, it shall be easy to convert a pattern back to string. This is already implemented by toString(), but of course only returns java representation. If toString() is endowed with a parameter, one can quite easily return pattern in any language. Of course, sometimes not feasable throwning an exception.
On the other hand, a separate lib.. difficult, without exposing the internal structure of a pattern.
Another thought: Frequently, there are projects with inhomogeneous technologies and also languages. Your library could be a means to bridge the technology gap in regex related aspects.