[ruby-core:67057] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7883] Add Regex#to_proc

Issue #7883 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada.

Description updated

Nothing, and line 10 is possible with `grep`

~~~ruby
%w{foo bar baz}.grep(/\Ab/) {|s|break s}
~~~

Anyway, a patch.

~~~diff
diff --git i/re.c w/re.c
index 1a0f0b1..d345f17 100644
--- i/re.c
+++ w/re.c
@@ -801,6 +801,19 @@ rb_reg_named_captures(VALUE re)
     return hash;
 }
 
+static VALUE
+rb_reg_to_proc(VALUE re)
+{
+    const ID id = 1;
+    VALUE proc = rb_attr_get(re, id);
+    if (NIL_P(proc)) {
+	proc = rb_obj_method(re, ID2SYM(rb_intern("=~")));
+	proc = rb_funcall(proc, rb_intern("to_proc"), 0, 0);
+	rb_ivar_set(re, id, proc);
+    }
+    return proc;
+}
+
 static int
 onig_new_with_source(regex_t** reg, const UChar* pattern, const UChar* pattern_end,
 	  OnigOptionType option, OnigEncoding enc, const OnigSyntaxType* syntax,
@@ -3660,6 +3673,7 @@ Init_Regexp(void)
     rb_define_method(rb_cRegexp, "fixed_encoding?", rb_reg_fixed_encoding_p, 0);
     rb_define_method(rb_cRegexp, "names", rb_reg_names, 0);
     rb_define_method(rb_cRegexp, "named_captures", rb_reg_named_captures, 0);
+    rb_define_method(rb_cRegexp, "to_proc", rb_reg_to_proc, 0);
 
     /* see Regexp.options and Regexp.new */
     rb_define_const(rb_cRegexp, "IGNORECASE", INT2FIX(ONIG_OPTION_IGNORECASE));
~~~


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Feature #7883: Add Regex#to_proc
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7883#change-50575

* Author: Robert Klemme
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto
* Category: core
* Target version: next minor
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Just a small addition to the standard library:

~~~ruby
class Regexp
  def to_proc; lambda {|s| self =~ s} end
end
~~~

With that one can use a `Regexp` everywhere a `Proc` is used as filtering criteria saving a bit of typing.  While we have `Enumerable#grep` already there may be other cases where you want to do something like

~~~ruby
irb(main):008:0> %w{foo bar baz}.select &/\Ab/
=> ["bar", "baz"]
irb(main):009:0> %w{foo bar baz}.reject &/\Ab/
=> ["foo"]
irb(main):010:0> %w{foo bar baz}.find &/\Ab/
=> "bar"
~~~

Note: line 9 and 10 are not possible with `Enumerable#grep` AFAIK.

I see low risk of breaking something.



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