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How regular expression works

  Peter        2012-06-25 05:23:41       3,192        0    

Rob Pike wrote 30 lines of codes to realize a simple regular expression matcher in his book The practice of Programming. This piece of code is really cool. Let's take a look at the code.

Meaning of different characters.

Character
Meaning
c
General character
.
Match any single character
^
Match start of a string
$
Match end of a string

*

Match zero or many occurrences of a character


/*match :Test the regexp in text*/
int match(char* regexp,char* text)
{
    if(regexp[0] == '^')
        return matchhere(regexp+1,text);
    do{ /*Check the string even if it is an empty string*/
        if(matchhere(regexp,text))
            return 1;
    }while(*text++ !='\0');
    return 0;
}
/*matchhere :Test regexp at the beginning of text*/
int matchhere(char* regexp,char* text)
{
    if(regexp[0] == '\0')
        return 1;
    if(regexp[1] == '*')
        return matchstar(regexp[0],regexp+2,text);
    if(regexp[0] == '$' && regexp[1] == '\0')
        return *text == '\0';
    if(*text != '\0' && (regexp[0] == '.' || regexp[0] == *text))
        return matchhere(regexp+1,text+1);
    return 0;
}
/*matchstar :Match zero or many occurrences of character c in text*/
int matchstar(int c,char* regexp,char* text)
{
    do{
        if(matchhere(regexp,text))
            return 1;
    }while(*text != '\0' && (*text++ == c || c == '.'));
    return 0;
}

Source : http://blog.csdn.net/denieljean/article/details/6611661

C  REGULAR EXPRESSION  IMPLEMENTATION  ROB PIKE 

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