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Regexify

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Having fun with regex. Is it possible? I think so.

Installation

gem install regexify

Usage

Regexify provides a simple interface to write regex in ruby

Four methods can be used to create the regex:

• begin_with
• then
• not
• end_with

And the regex method will convert it to a Regexp object.

You can use strings/characters using these methods as well as symbols from the list below:

• number: 0-9
• uppercase: A-Z
• lowercase: a-z
• letter: a-zA-Z
• alphanumeric: a-zA-Z0-9
• anything: .
• whitespace: \s
• tab: \t
• space:

Range and exactly can be used to specify a number of occurrences.

Here is a basic example:

Regexify.new
  .begin_with('hello', 'hola', range: [2,3])
  .then(',')
  .then('world', exactly: 2)
  .end_with('!', range: [1,]).regex

 => /^(hello|hola){2,3},(world){2}!{1,}$/ 
 
Regexify.new
  .begin_with(:uppercase, exactly: 3)
  .then(:number, '-', range: [2,10])
  .not(:alphanumeric, exactly:1)
  .end_with('!').regex

 => /^[A-Z]{3}[0-9-]{2,10}[^a-zA-Z0-9]!$/

This project was heavily inspired by regularity

LICENSE

This gem is MIT licensed, please see LICENSE for more information.