pver / fsharpverbalexpressions

Compoable F# regular expressions made easy

FsVerbalExpressions

This library wraps the .NET RegEx object in a composable F# type and allows you to write regular expressions in natural language. Lazy evaluation ensures composition imposes no performance penalty.

• Documentation: FsVerbalExpressions
• Nuget: FsVerbalExpressions

For enhanced debugging and API documentation experience, FsVerbalExpressions proudly implements SourceLink

Future Directions

Expanding and enhancing the Verbal Expression language for F# is not currently a major focus, unless users request some specific use cases.

Enhancing the regular expression composition experience is currently the major focus. See:

• Functions for static Regex methods
• MatchCollection, CaptureCollection, GroupCollection natively as arrays

Pull requests welcome so long as

• they include excellent unit test coverage
• they include correct intellisense documentation
• they adhere to the concepts of composability and Verbal Expressions

FsVerbalExpressions adheres to Semantic Versioning. So long as the project is pre-1.0.0 minor versions may be breaking. Once the project reaches 1.0.0 minor enhancements will be backwards-compatible.

About Verbal Expressions

You can see an up to date list of all ports of Verbal Expressions on VerbalExpressions.

Giving credit where credit is due, the CSharpVerbalExpressions was a great help in providing pre-made unit tests and inspiration for .NET specific functionality.

Maintainer(s)

• @jackfoxy