Spectrum

Spectrum provides POSIX Regular Expressions for Swift 2.

Features

• [x] No Foundation dependency (Linux ready)
• [x] Matches
• [x] Groups
• [x] Replace

Usage

let regex = try! Regex(pattern: "hello")
regex.matches("hello") // true
regex.matches("bye") // false

let regex = try! Regex(pattern: "(hello)")
regex.groups("hello") // ["hello"]
regex.groups("bye") // []

let regex = try! Regex(pattern: "(hello) (world)")
let groups = regex.groups("hello world") // ["hello", "world"]

let regex = try! Regex(pattern: "hello")
regex.replace("hello world", withTemplate: "bye") // "bye world"

Installation

Manually

If you prefer not to use a dependency manager, you can integrate Spectrum into your project manually.

Embedded Framework

• Open up Terminal, cd into your top-level project directory, and run the following command “if” your project is not initialized as a git repository:

$ git init

• Add Spectrum as a git submodule by running the following command:

$ git submodule add https://github.com/Zewo/Spectrum.git

• Open the new Spectrum folder, and drag the Spectrum.xcodeproj into the Project Navigator of your application’s Xcode project.

  It should appear nested underneath your application’s blue project icon. Whether it is above or below all the other Xcode groups does not matter.

• Select the Spectrum.xcodeproj in the Project Navigator and verify the deployment target matches that of your application target.

• Next, select your application project in the Project Navigator (blue project icon) to navigate to the target configuration window and select the application target under the “Targets” heading in the sidebar.
• In the tab bar at the top of that window, open the “General” panel.
• Click on the + button under the “Embedded Binaries” section.

• You will see two different Spectrum.xcodeproj folders each with two different versions of the Spectrum.framework nested inside a Products folder.

  It does not matter which Products folder you choose from, but it does matter whether you choose the top or bottom Spectrum.framework.

• Select the top Spectrum.framework for OS X and the bottom one for iOS.

  You can verify which one you selected by inspecting the build log for your project. The build target for Spectrum will be listed as either Spectrum iOS or Spectrum OSX.

• And that’s it!

The Spectrum.framework is automagically added as a target dependency, linked framework and embedded framework in a copy files build phase which is all you need to build on the simulator and a device.

License

Spectrum is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.