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1 ;;; regexp-opt.el --- generate efficient regexps to match strings
2
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
4 ;; 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5
6 ;; Author: Simon Marshall <simon@gnu.org>
7 ;; Maintainer: FSF
8 ;; Keywords: strings, regexps, extensions
9
10 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
11
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24 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
25 ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
26
27 ;;; Commentary:
28
29 ;; The "opt" in "regexp-opt" stands for "optim\\(al\\|i[sz]e\\)".
30 ;;
31 ;; This package generates a regexp from a given list of strings (which matches
32 ;; one of those strings) so that the regexp generated by:
33 ;;
34 ;; (regexp-opt strings)
35 ;;
36 ;; is equivalent to, but more efficient than, the regexp generated by:
37 ;;
38 ;; (mapconcat 'regexp-quote strings "\\|")
39 ;;
40 ;; For example:
41 ;;
42 ;; (let ((strings '("cond" "if" "when" "unless" "while"
43 ;; "let" "let*" "progn" "prog1" "prog2"
44 ;; "save-restriction" "save-excursion" "save-window-excursion"
45 ;; "save-current-buffer" "save-match-data"
46 ;; "catch" "throw" "unwind-protect" "condition-case")))
47 ;; (concat "(" (regexp-opt strings t) "\\>"))
48 ;; => "(\\(c\\(atch\\|ond\\(ition-case\\)?\\)\\|if\\|let\\*?\\|prog[12n]\\|save-\\(current-buffer\\|excursion\\|match-data\\|restriction\\|window-excursion\\)\\|throw\\|un\\(less\\|wind-protect\\)\\|wh\\(en\\|ile\\)\\)\\>"
49 ;;
50 ;; Searching using the above example `regexp-opt' regexp takes approximately
51 ;; two-thirds of the time taken using the equivalent `mapconcat' regexp.
52
53 ;; Since this package was written to produce efficient regexps, not regexps
54 ;; efficiently, it is probably not a good idea to in-line too many calls in
55 ;; your code, unless you use the following trick with `eval-when-compile':
56 ;;
57 ;; (defvar definition-regexp
58 ;; (eval-when-compile
59 ;; (concat "^("
60 ;; (regexp-opt '("defun" "defsubst" "defmacro" "defalias"
61 ;; "defvar" "defconst") t)
62 ;; "\\>")))
63 ;;
64 ;; The `byte-compile' code will be as if you had defined the variable thus:
65 ;;
66 ;; (defvar definition-regexp
67 ;; "^(\\(def\\(alias\\|const\\|macro\\|subst\\|un\\|var\\)\\)\\>")
68 ;;
69 ;; Note that if you use this trick for all instances of `regexp-opt' and
70 ;; `regexp-opt-depth' in your code, regexp-opt.el would only have to be loaded
71 ;; at compile time. But note also that using this trick means that should
72 ;; regexp-opt.el be changed, perhaps to fix a bug or to add a feature to
73 ;; improve the efficiency of `regexp-opt' regexps, you would have to recompile
74 ;; your code for such changes to have effect in your code.
75
76 ;; Originally written for font-lock.el, from an idea from Stig's hl319.el, with
77 ;; thanks for ideas also to Michael Ernst, Bob Glickstein, Dan Nicolaescu and
78 ;; Stefan Monnier.
79 ;; No doubt `regexp-opt' doesn't always produce optimal regexps, so code, ideas
80 ;; or any other information to improve things are welcome.
81 ;;
82 ;; One possible improvement would be to compile '("aa" "ab" "ba" "bb")
83 ;; into "[ab][ab]" rather than "a[ab]\\|b[ab]". I'm not sure it's worth
84 ;; it but if someone knows how to do it without going through too many
85 ;; contortions, I'm all ears.
86 \f
87 ;;; Code:
88
89 ;;;###autoload
90 (defun regexp-opt (strings &optional paren)
91 "Return a regexp to match a string in the list STRINGS.
92 Each string should be unique in STRINGS and should not contain any regexps,
93 quoted or not. If optional PAREN is non-nil, ensure that the returned regexp
94 is enclosed by at least one regexp grouping construct.
95 The returned regexp is typically more efficient than the equivalent regexp:
96
97 (let ((open (if PAREN \"\\\\(\" \"\")) (close (if PAREN \"\\\\)\" \"\")))
98 (concat open (mapconcat 'regexp-quote STRINGS \"\\\\|\") close))
99
100 If PAREN is `words', then the resulting regexp is additionally surrounded
101 by \\=\\< and \\>."
102 (save-match-data
103 ;; Recurse on the sorted list.
104 (let* ((max-lisp-eval-depth (* 1024 1024))
105 (max-specpdl-size (* 1024 1024))
106 (completion-ignore-case nil)
107 (completion-regexp-list nil)
108 (words (eq paren 'words))
109 (open (cond ((stringp paren) paren) (paren "\\(")))
110 (sorted-strings (delete-dups
111 (sort (copy-sequence strings) 'string-lessp)))
112 (re (regexp-opt-group sorted-strings open)))
113 (if words (concat "\\<" re "\\>") re))))
114
115 ;;;###autoload
116 (defun regexp-opt-depth (regexp)
117 "Return the depth of REGEXP.
118 This means the number of non-shy regexp grouping constructs
119 \(parenthesized expressions) in REGEXP."
120 (save-match-data
121 ;; Hack to signal an error if REGEXP does not have balanced parentheses.
122 (string-match regexp "")
123 ;; Count the number of open parentheses in REGEXP.
124 (let ((count 0) start last)
125 (while (string-match "\\\\(\\(\\?:\\)?" regexp start)
126 (setq start (match-end 0)) ; Start of next search.
127 (when (and (not (match-beginning 1))
128 (subregexp-context-p regexp (match-beginning 0) last))
129 ;; It's not a shy group and it's not inside brackets or after
130 ;; a backslash: it's really a group-open marker.
131 (setq last start) ; Speed up next regexp-opt-re-context-p.
132 (setq count (1+ count))))
133 count)))
134 \f
135 ;;; Workhorse functions.
136
137 (eval-when-compile
138 (require 'cl))
139
140 (defun regexp-opt-group (strings &optional paren lax)
141 ;; Return a regexp to match a string in the sorted list STRINGS.
142 ;; If PAREN non-nil, output regexp parentheses around returned regexp.
143 ;; If LAX non-nil, don't output parentheses if it doesn't require them.
144 ;; Merges keywords to avoid backtracking in Emacs' regexp matcher.
145
146 ;; The basic idea is to find the shortest common prefix or suffix, remove it
147 ;; and recurse. If there is no prefix, we divide the list into two so that
148 ;; \(at least) one half will have at least a one-character common prefix.
149
150 ;; Also we delay the addition of grouping parenthesis as long as possible
151 ;; until we're sure we need them, and try to remove one-character sequences
152 ;; so we can use character sets rather than grouping parenthesis.
153 (let* ((open-group (cond ((stringp paren) paren) (paren "\\(?:") (t "")))
154 (close-group (if paren "\\)" ""))
155 (open-charset (if lax "" open-group))
156 (close-charset (if lax "" close-group)))
157 (cond
158 ;;
159 ;; If there are no strings, just return the empty string.
160 ((= (length strings) 0)
161 "")
162 ;;
163 ;; If there is only one string, just return it.
164 ((= (length strings) 1)
165 (if (= (length (car strings)) 1)
166 (concat open-charset (regexp-quote (car strings)) close-charset)
167 (concat open-group (regexp-quote (car strings)) close-group)))
168 ;;
169 ;; If there is an empty string, remove it and recurse on the rest.
170 ((= (length (car strings)) 0)
171 (concat open-charset
172 (regexp-opt-group (cdr strings) t t) "?"
173 close-charset))
174 ;;
175 ;; If there are several one-char strings, use charsets
176 ((and (= (length (car strings)) 1)
177 (let ((strs (cdr strings)))
178 (while (and strs (/= (length (car strs)) 1))
179 (pop strs))
180 strs))
181 (let (letters rest)
182 ;; Collect one-char strings
183 (dolist (s strings)
184 (if (= (length s) 1) (push (string-to-char s) letters) (push s rest)))
185
186 (if rest
187 ;; several one-char strings: take them and recurse
188 ;; on the rest (first so as to match the longest).
189 (concat open-group
190 (regexp-opt-group (nreverse rest))
191 "\\|" (regexp-opt-charset letters)
192 close-group)
193 ;; all are one-char strings: just return a character set.
194 (concat open-charset
195 (regexp-opt-charset letters)
196 close-charset))))
197 ;;
198 ;; We have a list of different length strings.
199 (t
200 (let ((prefix (try-completion "" strings)))
201 (if (> (length prefix) 0)
202 ;; common prefix: take it and recurse on the suffixes.
203 (let* ((n (length prefix))
204 (suffixes (mapcar (lambda (s) (substring s n)) strings)))
205 (concat open-group
206 (regexp-quote prefix)
207 (regexp-opt-group suffixes t t)
208 close-group))
209
210 (let* ((sgnirts (mapcar (lambda (s)
211 (concat (nreverse (string-to-list s))))
212 strings))
213 (xiffus (try-completion "" sgnirts)))
214 (if (> (length xiffus) 0)
215 ;; common suffix: take it and recurse on the prefixes.
216 (let* ((n (- (length xiffus)))
217 (prefixes
218 ;; Sorting is necessary in cases such as ("ad" "d").
219 (sort (mapcar (lambda (s) (substring s 0 n)) strings)
220 'string-lessp)))
221 (concat open-group
222 (regexp-opt-group prefixes t t)
223 (regexp-quote
224 (concat (nreverse (string-to-list xiffus))))
225 close-group))
226
227 ;; Otherwise, divide the list into those that start with a
228 ;; particular letter and those that do not, and recurse on them.
229 (let* ((char (char-to-string (string-to-char (car strings))))
230 (half1 (all-completions char strings))
231 (half2 (nthcdr (length half1) strings)))
232 (concat open-group
233 (regexp-opt-group half1)
234 "\\|" (regexp-opt-group half2)
235 close-group))))))))))
236
237
238 (defun regexp-opt-charset (chars)
239 ;;
240 ;; Return a regexp to match a character in CHARS.
241 ;;
242 ;; The basic idea is to find character ranges. Also we take care in the
243 ;; position of character set meta characters in the character set regexp.
244 ;;
245 (let* ((charmap (make-char-table 'case-table))
246 (start -1) (end -2)
247 (charset "")
248 (bracket "") (dash "") (caret ""))
249 ;;
250 ;; Make a character map but extract character set meta characters.
251 (dolist (char chars)
252 (case char
253 (?\]
254 (setq bracket "]"))
255 (?^
256 (setq caret "^"))
257 (?-
258 (setq dash "-"))
259 (otherwise
260 (aset charmap char t))))
261 ;;
262 ;; Make a character set from the map using ranges where applicable.
263 (map-char-table
264 (lambda (c v)
265 (when v
266 (if (consp c)
267 (if (= (1- (car c)) end) (setq end (cdr c))
268 (if (> end (+ start 2))
269 (setq charset (format "%s%c-%c" charset start end))
270 (while (>= end start)
271 (setq charset (format "%s%c" charset start))
272 (incf start)))
273 (setq start (car c) end (cdr c)))
274 (if (= (1- c) end) (setq end c)
275 (if (> end (+ start 2))
276 (setq charset (format "%s%c-%c" charset start end))
277 (while (>= end start)
278 (setq charset (format "%s%c" charset start))
279 (incf start)))
280 (setq start c end c)))))
281 charmap)
282 (when (>= end start)
283 (if (> end (+ start 2))
284 (setq charset (format "%s%c-%c" charset start end))
285 (while (>= end start)
286 (setq charset (format "%s%c" charset start))
287 (incf start))))
288 ;;
289 ;; Make sure a caret is not first and a dash is first or last.
290 (if (and (string-equal charset "") (string-equal bracket ""))
291 (concat "[" dash caret "]")
292 (concat "[" bracket charset caret dash "]"))))
293
294 (provide 'regexp-opt)
295
296 ;; arch-tag: 6c5a66f4-29af-4fd6-8c3b-4b554d5b4370
297 ;;; regexp-opt.el ends here