Production ready regular expressions in zig?

[stuck ocean]

I want to build a lexer so i need a regex lib

[cobalt adder]

No you don't

[stuck ocean]

?

[cobalt adder]

Regex is a very bad way to make a lexer

[stuck ocean]

then what should i do?

hand code my lexer?

[cobalt adder]

Yeah why not?

[stuck ocean]

okay

[inland talon]

You can use regex for your lexer but I'd suggest you use a while loop and a switch statement. Here's an example: https://github.com/tusharsadhwani/zlox/blob/main/src/tokenizer.zig#L103-L148

Handles floats, strings, variables, 1 and 2 character operators.

[empty dagger]

use re2c

for lexer

there's a fork that generates zig code

I used it and it works

[cobalt adder]

can you link to that

[stuck ocean]

yeah can u link that

[stuck ocean]

Its short and sweet. Nice

[empty dagger]

@stuck ocean https://github.com/Techcable/re2c-zig

[cobalt adder]

Hey thanks

[stuck ocean]

thanks