The function ‘builtins.match’ takes a POSIX extended regular
expression and an arbitrary string. It returns ‘null’ if the string
does not match the regular expression. Otherwise, it returns a list
containing substring matches corresponding to parenthesis groups in
the regex. The regex must match the entire string (i.e. there is an
implied "^<pat>$" around the regex).  For example:
  match "foo" "foobar" => null
  match "foo" "foo" => []
  match "f(o+)(.*)" "foooobar" => ["oooo" "bar"]
  match "(.*/)?([^/]*)" "/dir/file.nix" => ["/dir/" "file.nix"]
  match "(.*/)?([^/]*)" "file.nix" => [null "file.nix"]
The following example finds all regular files with extension .nix or
.patch underneath the current directory:
  let
    findFiles = pat: dir: concatLists (mapAttrsToList (name: type:
      if type == "directory" then
        findFiles pat (dir + "/" + name)
      else if type == "regular" && match pat name != null then
        [(dir + "/" + name)]
      else []) (readDir dir));
  in findFiles ".*\\.(nix|patch)" (toString ./.)
		
	
			
		
			
				
	
	
		
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| with builtins;
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| let
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|   matches = pat: s: match pat s != null;
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|   splitFN = match "((.*)/)?([^/]*)\\.(nix|cc)";
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| in
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| assert  matches "foobar" "foobar";
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| assert  matches "fo*" "f";
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| assert !matches "fo+" "f";
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| assert  matches "fo*" "fo";
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| assert  matches "fo*" "foo";
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| assert  matches "fo+" "foo";
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| assert  matches "fo{1,2}" "foo";
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| assert !matches "fo{1,2}" "fooo";
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| assert !matches "fo*" "foobar";
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| assert match "(.*)\\.nix" "foobar.nix" == [ "foobar" ];
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| assert splitFN "/path/to/foobar.nix" == [ "/path/to/" "/path/to" "foobar" "nix" ];
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| assert splitFN "foobar.cc" == [ null null "foobar" "cc" ];
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| true
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