taxon_search v0.0.1 TaxonSearch.StringUtils
Provides functions to help with tokenizing strings, generating regexes from string tokens, and matching phrases against sets of string tokens.
A token is defined as a series of alphanumeric characters separated from other tokens by whitespace or punctuation.
Summary
Functions
Returns true if str
matches against all of the regexes
Returns a collection of the tokens in str
Returns a case-insenstive regular expression generated from str
Returns a collection of case-insensitive regexes, one for each token in str
Functions
Returns true if str
matches against all of the regexes
.
Parameters
- regexes: Collection of regular expressions
- str: String to match against the
regexes
Examples
iex> TaxonSearch.StringUtils.all_regexes_match?(["Hello", "world"], "Hello, world")
true
iex> TaxonSearch.StringUtils.all_regexes_match?(["Goodbye", "world"], "Hello, world")
false
Returns a collection of the tokens in str
.
Parameters
- str: String to split into tokens
Examples
iex> TaxonSearch.StringUtils.get_string_tokens("Red-headed monkey ")
["Red", "headed", "monkey"]
Returns a case-insenstive regular expression generated from str
.
Parameters
- str: String to convert into a case-insensitive regular expression
Examples
iex> TaxonSearch.StringUtils.get_token_regex("Red")
~r/Red/i