Assert::match and placeholders redesign
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- David Grudl
- Nette Core | 8205
For matching string against pattern Nette Tester provides methods
Assert::match()
and Assert::matchFile()
. It is
possible to use classic regexp pattern, but more useful are these wildchars (or
placeholders):
%a%
one or more of anything except the end of line characters%a?%
zero or more of anything except the end of line characters%A%
one or more of anything including the end of line characters%A?%
zero or more of anything including the end of line characters%s%
one or more white space characters except the end of line characters%s?%
zero or more white space characters except the end of line characters%S%
one or more of characters except the white space%S?%
zero or more of characters except the white space%c%
a single character of any sort (except the end of line)%d%
one or more digits%d?%
zero or more digits%i%
signed integer value%f%
floating point number%h%
one or more HEX digits%ds%
directory separator%[...]%
any characters range- …and you can add new custom wildchars
They are useful because you don't need to think about escaping all regexp meta characters.
But there is problem with inconsistency: %a%
vs.
%A%
and %s%
vs. %S%
. First ones differs
in line endings, second ones have opposite meaning. Some of wildchars are not
intuitive. I'd like to fix it. Let's put our heads together and figure out how
some of them change.