A small language that allows you to define rules for creating regular expressions and for searching for patterns in text.

The language persists only of rules, functions and builtin-functions and allows you to match text or generate regexes in an easy and readable way.

This was tested only on my Ubuntu 20.04 machine.

• *nix machine
• CMake >=3.16
• GNU Make
• C++20 compiler

To download prerequisites on Ubuntu:

sudo apt install build-essential cmake gcc-11

Clone this repository.

Enter the created directory and run:

cmake . && make

The executable, called bonzo, will be set in the base directory.

There are some example files in the examples/ directory.

To run the hello-world example file:

./bonzo examples/hello_world.bz

• Generate regex
• Our own matching engine
• Better argument handling
• Tests
• [~] Better errors (show position in runtime errors)
• More tests
• Fix some UB
• Refactor
• Different make rule to build the runtests executable
• Show matches in an interactive way (like less)
• More regex syntaxes