[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: JRegex library

[John Meacham]

JRegex is a library that provides interfaces to both PCRE (perl
comptatable regular expressions) and Posix regular expressions. 

it also provides an operator (=~) which is similar, but much more
powerful than the perl operator. In addition, the syntax uses
extensible type classes so you may extend it with any regular
expression or list matching types and the ability to match lists of any
type (not just chars).

for an example, here is the output of several calls to =~ just used at
different types:

    -- return number of times the regex matches
    print ("hellofooobarbobfoobarbad" =~ "fo*bar" :: Int)
     => 2

    -- returns the first matching expression
    print ("hellofooobarbobfoobarbad" =~ "fo*bar" :: String)
     => "fooobar"

    -- returns the string before the first match, the matching string, and the string after the first match
    print ("hellofooobarbobfoobarbad" =~ "fo*bar" :: (String,String,String))
     => ("hello","fooobar","bobfoobarbad")

    -- returns true if there is a match at all and false otherwise
    print ("hellofooobarbobfoobarbad" =~ "fo*bar" :: Bool)
     => True

    -- always returns (). useful with the (=~~) monadic operator
    print ("hellofooobarbobfoobarbad" =~ "fo*bar" :: ())
     => ()

    -- returns all matching substrings
    print ("hellofooobarbobfoobarbad" =~ "fo*bar" :: [String])
     => ["fooobar","foobar"]

    -- returns an array off all matching parenthesised substrings in the regex for first match
    print ("hellofooobarbobfoobaaarbad" =~ "f(o*)b(a+r)" :: Array Int String)
     => array (0,2) [(0,"fooobar"),(1,"ooo"),(2,"ar")]

    -- returns an array off all matching parenthesised substrings in the regex for all matches
    print ("hellofooobarbobfoobaaarbad" =~ "f(o*)b(a+r)" :: [Array Int String])
     => [array (0,2) [(0,"fooobar"),(1,"ooo"),(2,"ar")],array (0,2) [(0,"foobaaar"),(1,"oo"),(2,"aaar")]]


here is its homepage:
 http://repetae.net/john/computer/haskell/JRegex/

I released a different version of this library in the past, but this
version has been cleaned up, moved to a proper spot in the libraries,
and is cabalized.

        John
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