Add to your Cargo.toml file dependencies:

litepattern = "0.1.0"

or: litepattern = { git = "https://github.com/stpettersens/litepattern.git" }

```

You can use litepattern as a lighter alternative to the regex crate, if you only need to do simple pattern matching. For example, say you want to pass a simple timestamp such as 2017-01-10T19:10:00 and break it down into is constituent parts:

```rust extern crate litepattern; use litepattern::LPattern;

fn main() { // Parse something like 2017-01-10T19:10:00. // The % is mandatory, but the d is just notation for a digit, you can use another non-"%" character. let p = LPattern::new("%dddd-%dd-%ddT%dd-%dd-%dd"); // => LPattern.

// Apply the pattern against ("to") some input text and return any matches (captures) as a vector of Strings. let caps = p.apply_to("2017-01-10T19:10:00"); // => ["2017-", "01-", "10T", "19:", "10:", "00"]

// Get the year. println!("{}", &caps[0][0..4]); // First item in vector; slice of four characters from index zero => 2017

// Get the month. println!("{}", &caps[1][0..2]); // Second item in vector; slice of two characters from index zero => 01

// Get the day. println!("{}", &caps[2][0..2]); // Third item in vector; slice of two characters from index zero => 10 } ```

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