EC_NODE_RE_LEX(3)

💖 EC_NODE_RE_LEX(3) 💖

Libecoli Programmer's Manual ✨ (yes bestie, we're in the libecoli chapter, iykyk)

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ec_node_re_lex — ok so this one makes a regex-based lexer node 🧚‍♀️ it's giving "i chop up your input with regexes and hand you the pieces."

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <ecoli/node_re_lex.h>

struct ec_node * ec_node_re_lex(
    const char       *id,     /* The node identifier. */
    /*
     * The child node. It is consumed and will be freed when the parent is
     * freed, or immediately on error.
     */
    struct ec_node   *child
);

two args, that's it, she's lowkey simple like that 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically this node tokenizes the input using regular expressions, and those regexes get added with ec_node_re_lex_add(), and then it passes the resulting tokens straight to the child node. Tokenize → hand off → child does its thing. Periodt. 🎀

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👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

You get the node back 🫶 … or NULL on error, and ngl when that happens errno is set. So like, check it. 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• ec_node_re_lex_add(3)

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (C) 2010-2026 Olivier Matz, Robin Jarry.

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ok that's the whole page bestie, you ate it 💖 this was libecoli, dated 2026-06-11, and it lives under the manual name EC_NODE_RE_LEX(3) — go forth and tokenize, main character 🌟👑