<!DOCTYPE html><htmllang="en"><head><metacharset="utf-8"><metaname="viewport"content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><metaname="generator"content="rustdoc"><metaname="description"content="API documentation for the Rust `Parser` struct in crate `regex_syntax`."><metaname="keywords"content="rust, rustlang, rust-lang, Parser"><title>regex_syntax::Parser - Rust</title><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="../normalize.css"><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="../rustdoc.css"id="mainThemeStyle"><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="../dark.css"><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="../light.css"id="themeStyle"><scriptsrc="../storage.js"></script><noscript><linkrel="stylesheet"href="../noscript.css"></noscript><linkrel="shortcut icon"href="../favicon.ico"><styletype="text/css">#crate-search{background-image:url("../down-arrow.svg");}</style></head><bodyclass="rustdoc struct"><!--[if lte IE 8]><div class="warning">This old browser is unsupported and will most likely display funky things.</div><![endif]--><navclass="sidebar"><divclass="sidebar-menu">☰</div><ahref='../regex_syntax/index.html'><divclass='logo-container'><imgsrc='../rust-logo.png'alt='logo'></div></a><pclass='location'>Struct Parser</p><divclass="sidebar-elems"><divclass="block items"><aclass="sidebar-title"href="#methods">Methods</a><divclass="sidebar-links"><ahref="#method.new">new</a><ahref="#method.parse">parse</a></div><aclass="sidebar-title"href="#implementations">Trait Implementations</a><divclass="sidebar-links"><ahref="#impl-Clone">Clone</a><ahref="#impl-Debug">Debug</a></div><aclass="sidebar-title"href="#synthetic-implementations">Auto Trait Implementations</a><divclass="sidebar-links"><ahref="#impl-RefUnwindSafe">!RefUnwindSafe</a><ahref="#impl-Send">Send</a><ahref="#impl-Sync">!Sync</a><ahref="#impl-Unpin">Unpin</a><ahref="#impl-UnwindSafe">UnwindSafe</a></div><aclass="sidebar-title"href="#blanket-implementations">Blanket Implementations</a><divclass="sidebar-links"><ahref="#impl-Any">Any</a><ahref="#impl-Borrow%3CT%3E">Borrow<T></a><ahref="#impl-BorrowMut%3CT%3E">BorrowMut<T></a><ahref="#impl-From%3CT%3E">From<T></a><ahref="#impl-Into%3CU%3E">Into<U></a><ahref="#impl-ToOwned">ToOwned</a><ahref="#impl-TryFrom%3CU%3E">TryFrom<U></a><ahref="#impl-TryInto%3CU%3E">TryInto<U></a></div></div><pclass='location'><ahref='index.html'>regex_syntax</a></p><script>window.sidebarCurrent={name:'Parser',ty:'struct',relpath:''};</script><scriptdefersrc="sidebar-items.js"></script></div></nav><divclass="theme-picker"><buttonid="theme-picker"aria-label="Pick another theme!"><imgsrc="../brush.svg"width="18"alt="Pick another theme!"></button><divid="theme-choices"></div></div><scriptsrc="../theme.js"></script><navclass="sub"><formclass="search-form js-only"><divclass="search-container"><div><selectid="crate-search"><optionvalue="All crates">All crates</option></select><inputclass="search-input"name="search"autocomplete="off"spellcheck="false"placeholder="Click or press ‘S’ to search, ‘?’ for more options…"type="search"></div><aid="settings-menu"href="../settings.html"><imgsrc="../wheel.svg"width="18"alt="Change settings"></a></div></form></nav><sectionid="main"class="content"><h1class='fqn'><spanclass='out-of-band'><spanid='render-detail'><aid="toggle-all-docs"href="javascript:void(0)"title="collapse all docs">[<spanclass='inner'>−</span>]</a></span><aclass='srclink'href='../src/regex_syntax/parser.rs.html#175-178'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></span><spanclass='in-band'>Struct <ahref='index.html'>regex_syntax</a>::<wbr><aclass="struct"href=''>Parser</a></span></h1><divclass="docblock type-decl hidden-by-usual-hider"><preclass='rust struct'>pub struct Parser { /* fields omitted */ }</pre></div><divclass='docblock'><p>A convenience parser for regular expressions.</p>
<p>This parser takes as input a regular expression pattern string (the
"concrete syntax") and returns a high-level intermediate representation
(the HIR) suitable for most types of analysis. In particular, this parser
hides the intermediate state of producing an AST (the "abstract syntax").
The AST is itself far more complex than the HIR, so this parser serves as a
convenience for never having to deal with it at all.</p>
<p>If callers have more fine grained use cases that need an AST, then please
see the <ahref="ast/parse/index.html"><code>ast::parse</code></a> module.</p>
<p>A <code>Parser</code> can be configured in more detail via a
</div><h2id='methods'class='small-section-header'>Methods<ahref='#methods'class='anchor'></a></h2><h3id='impl'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl <aclass="struct"href="../regex_syntax/struct.Parser.html"title="struct regex_syntax::Parser">Parser</a></code><ahref='#impl'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='../src/regex_syntax/parser.rs.html#180-200'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='method.new'class="method"><codeid='new.v'>pub fn <ahref='#method.new'class='fnname'>new</a>() -><aclass="struct"href="../regex_syntax/struct.Parser.html"title="struct regex_syntax::Parser">Parser</a></code><aclass='srclink'href='../src/regex_syntax/parser.rs.html#189-191'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock'><p>Create a new parser with a default configuration.</p>
<p>The parser can be run with <code>parse</code> method. The parse method returns
a high level intermediate representation of the given regular
expression.</p>
<p>To set configuration options on the parser, use
</div><h4id='method.parse'class="method"><codeid='parse.v'>pub fn <ahref='#method.parse'class='fnname'>parse</a>(&mut self, pattern: &<aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.str.html">str</a>) -><aclass="type"href="../regex_syntax/type.Result.html"title="type regex_syntax::Result">Result</a><<aclass="struct"href="../regex_syntax/hir/struct.Hir.html"title="struct regex_syntax::hir::Hir">Hir</a>></code><aclass='srclink'href='../src/regex_syntax/parser.rs.html#195-199'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock'><p>Parse the regular expression into a high level intermediate
representation.</p>
</div></div><h2id='implementations'class='small-section-header'>Trait Implementations<ahref='#implementations'class='anchor'></a></h2><divid='implementations-list'><h3id='impl-Clone'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html"title="trait core::clone::Clone">Clone</a> for <aclass="struct"href="../regex_syntax/struct.Parser.html"title="struct regex_syntax::Parser">Parser</a></code><ahref='#impl-Clone'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='../src/regex_syntax/parser.rs.html#174'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='method.clone'class="method hidden"><codeid='clone.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html#tymethod.clone'class='fnname'>clone</a>(&self) -><aclass="struct"href="../regex_syntax/struct.Parser.html"title="struct regex_syntax::Parser">Parser</a></code><aclass='srclink'href='../src/regex_syntax/parser.rs.html#174'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Returns a copy of the value. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html#tymethod.clone">Read more</a></p>
</div><h4id='method.clone_from'class="method hidden"><codeid='clone_from.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html#method.clone_from'class='fnname'>clone_from</a>(&mut self, source: <aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.reference.html">&</a>Self)</code><spanclass='since'title='Stable since Rust version 1.0.0'>1.0.0</span><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/clone.rs.html#131-133'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Performs copy-assignment from <code>source</code>. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html#method.clone_from">Read more</a></p>
</div></div><h3id='impl-Debug'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/fmt/trait.Debug.html"title="trait core::fmt::Debug">Debug</a> for <aclass="struct"href="../regex_syntax/struct.Parser.html"title="struct regex_syntax::Parser">Parser</a></code><ahref='#impl-Debug'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='../src/regex_syntax/parser.rs.html#174'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='method.fmt'class="method hidden"><codeid='fmt.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/fmt/trait.Debug.html#tymethod.fmt'class='fnname'>fmt</a>(&self, f: &mut <aclass="struct"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/fmt/struct.Formatter.html"title="struct core::fmt::Formatter">Formatter</a>) -><aclass="type"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/fmt/type.Result.html"title="type core::fmt::Result">Result</a></code><aclass='srclink'href='../src/regex_syntax/parser.rs.html#174'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Formats the value using the given formatter. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/fmt/trait.Debug.html#tymethod.fmt">Read more</a></p>
</div></div><h3id='impl-ToOwned'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl<T><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/borrow/trait.ToOwned.html"title="trait alloc::borrow::ToOwned">ToOwned</a> for T <spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> T: <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/clone/trait.Clone.html"title="trait core::clone::Clone">Clone</a>, </span></code><ahref='#impl-ToOwned'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/alloc/borrow.rs.html#81-92'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='associatedtype.Owned'class="type"><codeid='Owned.t'>type <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/borrow/trait.ToOwned.html#associatedtype.Owned'class="type">Owned</a> = T</code></h4><divclass='docblock'><p>The resulting type after obtaining ownership.</p>
</div><h4id='method.to_owned'class="method hidden"><codeid='to_owned.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/borrow/trait.ToOwned.html#tymethod.to_owned'class='fnname'>to_owned</a>(&self) -> T</code><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/alloc/borrow.rs.html#85-87'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Creates owned data from borrowed data, usually by cloning. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/borrow/trait.ToOwned.html#tymethod.to_owned">Read more</a></p>
</div><h4id='method.clone_into'class="method hidden"><codeid='clone_into.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/borrow/trait.ToOwned.html#method.clone_into'class='fnname'>clone_into</a>(&self, target: <aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.reference.html">&mut </a>T)</code><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/alloc/borrow.rs.html#89-91'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='stability hidden'><divclass='stab unstable'><details><summary><spanclass='emoji'>🔬</span> This is a nightly-only experimental API. (<code>toowned_clone_into</code>)</summary><p>recently added</p>
</details></div></div><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Uses borrowed data to replace owned data, usually by cloning. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/borrow/trait.ToOwned.html#method.clone_into">Read more</a></p>
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</div><h4id='method.try_from'class="method hidden"><codeid='try_from.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html#tymethod.try_from'class='fnname'>try_from</a>(value: U) -><aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/result/enum.Result.html"title="enum core::result::Result">Result</a><T, <T as <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html"title="trait core::convert::TryFrom">TryFrom</a><U>>::<aclass="type"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html#associatedtype.Error"title="type core::convert::TryFrom::Error">Error</a>></code><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/convert.rs.html#574-576'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Performs the conversion.</p>
</div></div><h3id='impl-TryInto%3CU%3E'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl<T, U><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryInto.html"title="trait core::convert::TryInto">TryInto</a><U> for T <spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> U: <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html"title="trait core::convert::TryFrom">TryFrom</a><T>, </span></code><ahref='#impl-TryInto%3CU%3E'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/convert.rs.html#559-566'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='associatedtype.Error-1'class="type"><codeid='Error.t-1'>type <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryInto.html#associatedtype.Error'class="type">Error</a> = <U as <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html"title="trait core::convert::TryFrom">TryFrom</a><T>>::<aclass="type"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html#associatedtype.Error"title="type core::convert::TryFrom::Error">Error</a></code></h4><divclass='docblock'><p>The type returned in the event of a conversion error.</p>
</div><h4id='method.try_into'class="method hidden"><codeid='try_into.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryInto.html#tymethod.try_into'class='fnname'>try_into</a>(self) -><aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/result/enum.Result.html"title="enum core::result::Result">Result</a><U, <U as <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html"title="trait core::convert::TryFrom">TryFrom</a><T>>::<aclass="type"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html#associatedtype.Error"title="type core::convert::TryFrom::Error">Error</a>></code><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/convert.rs.html#563-565'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Performs the conversion.</p>
</div></div><h3id='impl-BorrowMut%3CT%3E'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl<T><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/borrow/trait.BorrowMut.html"title="trait core::borrow::BorrowMut">BorrowMut</a><T> for T <spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> T: ?<aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/marker/trait.Sized.html"title="trait core::marker::Sized">Sized</a>, </span></code><ahref='#impl-BorrowMut%3CT%3E'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/borrow.rs.html#218-220'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='method.borrow_mut'class="method hidden"><codeid='borrow_mut.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/borrow/trait.BorrowMut.html#tymethod.borrow_mut'class='fnname'>borrow_mut</a>(&mut self) -><aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.reference.html">&mut </a>T</code><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/borrow.rs.html#219'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Mutably borrows from an owned value. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/borrow/trait.BorrowMut.html#tymethod.borrow_mut">Read more</a></p>
</div></div><h3id='impl-Borrow%3CT%3E'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl<T><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/borrow/trait.Borrow.html"title="trait core::borrow::Borrow">Borrow</a><T> for T <spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> T: ?<aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/marker/trait.Sized.html"title="trait core::marker::Sized">Sized</a>, </span></code><ahref='#impl-Borrow%3CT%3E'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/borrow.rs.html#213-215'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='method.borrow'class="method hidden"><codeid='borrow.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/borrow/trait.Borrow.html#tymethod.borrow'class='fnname'>borrow</a>(&self) -><aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.reference.html">&</a>T</code><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/borrow.rs.html#214'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Immutably borrows from an owned value. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/borrow/trait.Borrow.html#tymethod.borrow">Read more</a></p>
</div></div><h3id='impl-Any'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl<T><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/any/trait.Any.html"title="trait core::any::Any">Any</a> for T <spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> T: 'static + ?<aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/marker/trait.Sized.html"title="trait core::marker::Sized">Sized</a>, </span></code><ahref='#impl-Any'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/any.rs.html#100-102'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='method.type_id'class="method hidden"><codeid='type_id.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/any/trait.Any.html#tymethod.type_id'class='fnname'>type_id</a>(&self) -><aclass="struct"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/any/struct.TypeId.html"title="struct core::any::TypeId">TypeId</a></code><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/any.rs.html#101'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Gets the <code>TypeId</code> of <code>self</code>. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/any/trait.Any.html#tymethod.type_id">Read more</a></p>
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