ecoli_node_re(3)

💅 NAME

ecoli_node_re — a regex node, bestie. Like, a node that matches input against a regular expression. That's the whole vibe ✨

It lives in the Libecoli manual (section 3, for the dev girlies who read man pages for fun 🫶).

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✨ SYNOPSIS

Functions

struct ec_node * ec_node_re (const char *id, const char *str)
int ec_node_re_set_regexp (struct ec_node *node, const char *re)

Those are the two functions, no cap. One makes the node, one swaps the regex out later. Cute, right? 💖

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🦋 Detailed Description

Okay so picture this: a node whose entire personality is matching input against a regular expression. That's it. That's the node. Main character energy 👑

A node that matches input against a regular expression.

Configuration Schema

Here's the schema, and I'm putting it in a code block because you do not want me paraphrasing a schema, that's how bugs get born 😭

schema re {
    string pattern  {
        description "The pattern to match.";
    }
}

There's exactly one field, pattern, and its description literally says "The pattern to match." — that's it, that's the field. Slay, honestly 🌸

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🎀 Function Documentation

🧚 struct ec_node* ec_node_re (const char * id, const char * str)

Create a regular expression node. Fresh off the press, iconic, one of one ✨

Parameters — here's what you're feeding it:

• id — the node identifier.
• str — the regular expression pattern (POSIX extended regex — yes, that specific flavour, don't come at me with your PCRE nonsense 🙈).

Returns — the node! 🎉 Or NULL on error, and when that happens errno is set, so go check it like a good little debugger 💀

🧚 int ec_node_re_set_regexp (struct ec_node * node, const char * re)

Set the regular expression on a regex node. Yeah, you heard me — you can straight up change its mind later 😌

Parameters:

• node — the regex node.
• re — the regular expression pattern. Heads up: it is duplicated internally, so your string is safe, do whatever you want with it afterwards, that's not your problem anymore 🫶

Returns — 0 on success, -1 on error (and errno is set, obviously, we been knew) 🔥

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👑 Author

Generated automatically by Doxygen for Libecoli from the source code. Not a human, just a robot doing its little robot thing 🤖💜

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ngl bestie, if you're reading this at 3am trying to figure out why your regex isn't matching — it's probably a POSIX extended thing. Just saying. ⭐

Okay bye, love you, go match some input 🌈

Version 0.11.3 — that's the version, babe — dated Thu Apr 9 2026, and that's the whole ecoli_node_re(3) page. Periodt 💅🎀