regex-base

Common "Text.Regex.*" API for Regex matching

https://wiki.haskell.org/Regular_expressions

Version on this page:	0.94.0.0
LTS Haskell 23.27:	0.94.0.3
Stackage Nightly 2025-07-12:	0.94.0.3
Latest on Hackage:	0.94.0.3

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Christopher Kuklewicz

Maintained by [email protected]

This version can be pinned in stack with:regex-base-0.94.0.0@sha256:d514eab2aa9ba4b9d14900ac40cbdea1993372466a6cc6ffeeab59a1975563c0,2166

Module documentation for 0.94.0.0

Text
- Text.Regex
  - Text.Regex.Base

Depends on 6 packages(full list with versions):

array, base, bytestring, containers, mtl, text

Used by 10 packages in lts-15.3(full list with versions):

lens-regex, regex, regex-compat, regex-compat-tdfa, regex-pcre, regex-pcre-builtin, regex-posix, regex-tdfa, regex-with-pcre, scalpel-core

This package doesn't provide the ability to do regex matching, but instead provides the type-classes that constitute the abstract API that is implemented by regex-* backends such as

See also https://wiki.haskell.org/Regular_expressions for more information.

Changes

0.94.0.0

Breaking change: Switch RegExp API from the previously used Monad(fail) to MonadFail(fail) to denote matching failures
Define Extract Text instances for strict and lazy Text types
Compatibility with base-4.13.0
Explicitly declare all modules Safe under SafeHaskell for GHC 7.4 and higher