Templating reference

Prefixes

These are all the permitted prefix notations:

Prefix	Description
m	Match one line.
m*	Match zero or more lines.
m+	Match one or more lines
m?	Match zero or one lines.
m{n}	Match N lines.
m{n,m}	Match N to M lines.
r	Regex match one line.
r*	Regex match zero or more lines.
r+	Regex match one or more lines
r?	Regex match zero or one lines.
r{n}	Regex match N lines.
r{n,m}	Regex match N to M lines.

Any of these may be postfixed with (variable_name) to stash a list as a key in a dictionary instead, for example if m resulted in a list ['foo', 'bar'] then m(wibble) would change this to {'wibble': ['foo', 'bar']}.

Additionally flags may be prefixed with a slash. The only flag supported is lax which allows garbage before and after the match criteria. So m> ble or m/!lax> ble would only match "ble", but m/lax> ble could match "wibble" or :code:”ibbles”` as well.

Core matches

These are the built in matches:

Name	Type	Description
integer	int	An integer.
non_ws	str	Non white space.
word	str	A word (in regular expression terms).
ws	str	White space
string	str	Any amount of text.
hostname	str	An internet fqdn (hostname).
ipaddr	str	An (IP) internet address.
number	float	An integer or floating point number.
common_dt	str	A date time.

See custom matches if you want to add your own.

Core function matches

These are the built in match functions:

Name(parameters)	Type | Description
re(regex)	str	A raw regular expression.
fixedwidth(width, strip)	str	A fixed width column. Strip (default true) turns white space strip on/off.

See match functions if you want to add your own.

Functions

These are the built in (post processing, non match) functions:

Name(parameters)	Type | Description
rstrip()	str	Strip right hand side white space.
lstrip()	str	Strip left hand side white space.