Allow regex parsing of files

[koseduhemak]

Hi,

I got an idea for a new feature: Regex parsing which contents of a file should be extracted. As files tend to change, it would be very helpful to enhance the parser to allow something like: my-file.json#R:/"scripts".*\]/imgs which should match the following contents of my-file.json:

... other content here...
"scripts": [
    "scripts/general-env-variables.sh",
    "scripts/ca-certificates.sh",
    "scripts/apt-install.sh",
    "scripts/timezone-fix.sh",
    "scripts/python-pip-repository.sh",
    "scripts/cloudfoundry-cli.sh",
]
... other content here...

See here for example: https://regex101.com/r/URfVWn/1

This way we can extract in a more flexible / reliable way and do not need to adjust start and end of line if source files are changing...

What do you think?

Best wishes, koseduhemak

[zakhenry]

So to clarify you're suggesting that an additional suffix be permitted that instead of defining which lines numbers to embed, it defines which lines matching an expression to embed?

I think this is a great idea, especially for data sources rather than code sources.