TextualRegexp
by Ari Brown and Robert Kremme
http://texrex.rubyforge.com

== DESCRIPTION:

And english-language wrapper for Regular Expressions - all of a sudden, they seem fun (hopefully)!

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

Incompatible with 1.9, as far as we know. Technically, it supports everything current RegExp does.

== SYNOPSIS:

Password = TextualRegexp.new do
anchor :beginning

group :capture do
any :letter
repeat(4..13) do
any :char
end
any :digit
end
end

or

US_Phone = TextualRegexp.new do
group :capture do
maybe { literal "1"
literal "-"
}
any :of {
group { maybe { literal "(" }
repeat(3) { any :digit }
maybe { literal ")" }
}
group { repeat(3) { any :digit } }
}
literal "-"
repeat(3) { any :digit }
literal "-"
repeat(4) { any :digit }
end
end

You can even add them together:
a = Password + US_Phone
it returns a new TextualRegexp object.

== REQUIREMENTS:

Ruby 1.8

== INSTALL:

sudo gem install texrex

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2007

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.