Dynamic cap count

[IngwiePhoenix]

Well, I want to use SLRE in my project, which consists of just a tiny scripting language and tiny extensions. My goal is to use SLRE to introduce RegEx support to it. The problem is that, in the nature of a scripting language, the user might supply multiple capture groups.

That is why I want to ask: How can I best count the capture groups in the buffe,r and then perform matching? I could just go through the buffer and look for (s, but maybe there is an easier method?

[IngwiePhoenix]

I had a friend of me code a solution for me. He is still a student and learning coding, but I thought it might be good practice for him.

https://gist.github.com/IngwiePhoenix/1a060d80469390b2c142

likely not the most reliable solution, but definitively one that'll work :)

[sebgod]

I've coded up something like this in a fork https://github.com/sebgod/slre/commits/introduce-slre_compile-function not sure if that still merges.

[Airr]

Would it be as simple as copying the value of variable "bi" (lines 282-284, where the sub-matches are captured) to global var and reference that? I did that for an add on for a scripting language and it seemed to work.

In slre.h, I did:
extern int ar_match_count;

And in slre.c, after line 284, I added:
ar_match_count=bi;

ar_match_count is declared in another file.

[IngwiePhoenix]

@Airr
Interesting idea. I might have to try this out one day. :)

@sebgod
Will look into this later. I somehow never saw this reply, but I will get to looking into the fork soon. Thanks for posting that. :)