Re: [Haskell-cafe] regex and Regular Expressions Libraries

I must correct myself. I said:

Being able to recover the text of the REs would be great and I would like to include it in a future release, but again that will need some coordination with the regex-base maintainers.

Sorry, that isn’t right at all. Regex already allows you to recover the text from a compiled RE via the reSource function: reSource :: RE -> String Evans said:

Nowadays I inherit that from pcre-heavy, but of course if you're already on another backend then maybe not so simple.

Yes, regex is built on top of regex-base and the regex-tdfa + regex-pcre back ends.

but you know tradition hangs heavy

Indeed so! Chris