Jayce is a blazing fast tokenizer
```rust use jayce::Jayce;
fn main () { let source = "Excalibur = 5000$"; let duos = &[ ("newline", r"^\n"), ("whitespace", r"^\s+"), ("name", r"^[a-zA-Z_]+"), ("price", r"^[0-9]+\$"), ("equals", r"^="), ]; let mut jayce = Jayce::new(source, duos);
while let Some(token) = jayce.eat() {
println!("{:?}", token);
}
} ```
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Token { kind: "name", value: "Excalibur", line: 1, column: 10 }
Token { kind: "whitespace", value: " ", line: 1, column: 11 }
Token { kind: "equals", value: "=", line: 1, column: 12 }
Token { kind: "whitespace", value: " ", line: 1, column: 13 }
Token { kind: "price", value: "5000$", line: 1, column: 18 }
Reaching the end of source returns None
Unknown character returns a Token
of kind unknown
with value of the unknown character
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pub struct Jayce<'a> {
pub source: &'a str, // source to tokenize
pub cursor: usize, // current position in the source
pub line: u32, // current line
pub column: u32, // current column
pub eat_count: usize, // total number of tokens eaten
}