[Haskell-cafe] Embedding Perl RegEx in Haskell

[C K Kashyap]

Dear Haskell folks,

I was attempting to do an EDSL that would allow me to describe regular
expressions in Hakell and generate Perl as target -

https://github.com/ckkashyap/LearningPrograms/blob/master/Haskell/edsl/regex.hs

$ ghci regex.hs
GHCi, version 7.0.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Loading package ffi-1.0 ... linking ... done.
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( regex.hs, interpreted )
Ok, modules loaded: Main.
*Main> let hello = stringToRegularExpression "hello"
*Main> let world = stringToRegularExpression "world"
*Main> :t hello
hello :: RegularExpression
*Main> :t world
world :: RegularExpression
*Main> let re = listToSequence [ hello, oneOrMore world, hello ]
*Main> re
hello(world)+hello
*Main> :t re
re :: RegularExpression

I am looking for suggestions on how I could encode the anchors - ^ and $ and
also how I could refer to captures. My goal is to be able to extend the idea
to create an EDSL that could be used to build Perl tasks - such as filters,
report generators etc

Arguably this could be seen as a pointless exercise because I could chose to
do the scripting in Haskell itself but I have a practical problem that I
have to deal with clusters that have a little dated version of Linux where I
could not really build the Haskell and where Haskell generated executables
don't seem to run. When I started out with this idea, I was thinking of
embedding Perl in Haskell but later I thought that perhaps that will sort of
beat the point of "DS" bit in EDSL. So, I have started on this idea of
trying to encode very precise "tasks".

Regards,
Kashyap
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