Accessing Scala Parser regular expression match data

parser-combinators, scala

Solution

Here is the implicit definition that converts your `Regex` into a `Parser`:

  /** A parser that matches a regex string */
  implicit def regex(r: Regex): Parser[String] = new Parser[String] {
    def apply(in: Input) = {
      val source = in.source
      val offset = in.offset
      val start = handleWhiteSpace(source, offset)
      (r findPrefixMatchOf (source.subSequence(start, source.length))) match {
        case Some(matched) =>
          Success(source.subSequence(start, start + matched.end).toString, 
                  in.drop(start + matched.end - offset))
        case None =>
          Failure("string matching regex `"+r+"' expected but `"+in.first+"' found", in.drop(start - offset))
      }
    }
  }

Just adapt it:

object X extends RegexParsers {
  /** A parser that matches a regex string and returns the Match */
  def regexMatch(r: Regex): Parser[Regex.Match] = new Parser[Regex.Match] {
    def apply(in: Input) = {
      val source = in.source
      val offset = in.offset
      val start = handleWhiteSpace(source, offset)
      (r findPrefixMatchOf (source.subSequence(start, source.length))) match {
        case Some(matched) =>
          Success(matched,
                  in.drop(start + matched.end - offset))
        case None =>
          Failure("string matching regex `"+r+"' expected but `"+in.first+"' found", in.drop(start - offset))
      }
    }
  }
  val t = regexMatch("""(\d\d)/(\d\d)/(\d\d\d\d)""".r) ^^ { case m => (m.group(1), m.group(2), m.group(3)) }
}

Example:

scala> X.parseAll(X.t, "23/03/1971")
res8: X.ParseResult[(String, String, String)] = [1.11] parsed: (23,03,1971)

Problem

I wondering if it's possible to get the MatchData generated from the matching regular expression in the grammar below. ``` object DateParser extends JavaTokenParsers { .... val dateLiteral = """(\d{4}[-/])?(\d\d[-/])?(\d\d)""".r ^^ { ... get MatchData } } ``` One option of course is to perform the match again inside the block, but since the RegexParser has already performed the match I'm hoping that it passes the MatchData to the block, or stores it?

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