1Math::Expression::EvaluUasteorr:C:oLnetxreirb(u3t)ed PerMlatDho:c:uEmxepnrteastsiioonn::Evaluator::Lexer(3)
2
3
4
6 Math::Expression::Evaluator::Lexer - Simple Lexer
7
9 use Math::Expression::Evaluator::Lexer qw(lex);
10 # suppose you want to parse simple math expressions
11 my @input_tokens = (
12 ['Int', qr/[+-]?\d+/ ],
13 ['Op', qr{[+-/*]} ],
14 ['Brace_Open', qr/\(/ ],
15 ['Brace_Close', qr/\)/ ],
16 ['Whitespace', qr/\s+/, sub { return; }],
17 );
18 my $text = "-12 * (3+4)";
19 my $out_tokens = lex($text, \@input_tokens);
20 for (@$out_tokens){
21 my ($name, $text, $pos) = @$_;
22 print "Found Token $name: $text (string pos: $pos)\n";
23 }
24
26 Math::Expression::Evaluator::Lexer is a simple lexer that breaks up a
27 text into tokens, depending on the input tokens you provide
28
30 lex
31 The only exported routine is lex, which expects input text as its
32 first argument and a array ref to list of input tokens.
33
34 Each input token consists of a token name (which you can choose
35 freely), a regex which matches the desired token, and optionally a
36 reference to a functions that takes the matched token text as its
37 argument. The token text is replaced by the return value of that
38 function. If the function returns undef, that token will not be
39 included in the list of output tokens. The regex should either fail
40 or match at least one character; zero-width matches utterly confuse
41 the lexer, and are disallowed.
42
43 lex() returns an array ref to a list of output tokens, each output
44 token is a reference to a list which contains the token name, the
45 matched text, the string position (in characters, counted from the
46 start of the input string, zero based) and the line number.
47
48 Note that "lex()" puts parentheses around the entire regex, so if you
49 want to use backreferences, the numbering of the capturing group is
50 changed.
51
53 Copyright (C) 2007 by Moritz Lenz, <http://moritz.faui2k3.org>,
54 moritz@faui2k3.org.
55
56 This Program and its Documentation is free software. You may distribute
57 it under the same terms as perl itself.
58
59 However all code examples are to be public domain, so you can use it in
60 any way you want to.
61
62
63
64perl v5.32.0 2020-07-M2a8th::Expression::Evaluator::Lexer(3)