Deprecate matchall

It is not obvious that returning matching SubStrings rather than RegexMatch objects is a good idea.

NEWS.md

@@ -1001,6 +1001,8 @@ Deprecated or removed
 
   * `ismatch(regex, str)` has been deprecated in favor of `contains(str, regex)` ([#24673]).
 
+  * `matchall` has been deprecated in favor of `collect(m.match for m in eachmatch(r, s))` ([#26071]).
+
   * `similar(::Associative)` has been deprecated in favor of `empty(::Associative)`, and
     `similar(::Associative, ::Pair{K, V})` has been deprecated in favour of
     `empty(::Associative, K, V)` ([#24390]).
@@ -1359,3 +1361,4 @@ Command-line option changes
 [#25990]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/25990
 [#25998]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/25998
 [#26009]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/26009
+[#26071]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/26071

base/deprecated.jl

@@ -1345,7 +1345,7 @@ end
 @deprecate names(m, all) names(m, all = all)
 @deprecate names(m, all, imported) names(m, all = all, imported = imported)
 @deprecate eachmatch(re, str, overlap) eachmatch(re, str, overlap = overlap)
-@deprecate matchall(re, str, overlap) matchall(re, str, overlap = overlap)
+@deprecate matchall(re, str, overlap) collect(m.match for m in eachmatch(re, str, overlap = overlap))
 @deprecate chop(s, head) chop(s, head = head)
 @deprecate chop(s, head, tail) chop(s, head = head, tail = tail)
 @deprecate tryparse(T::Type{<:Integer}, s, base) tryparse(T, s, base = base)
@@ -1404,6 +1404,10 @@ end
     Base.@deprecate log Base.log
 end
 
+# PR 26071
+@deprecate(matchall(r::Regex, s::AbstractString; overlap::Bool = false),
+           collect(m.match for m in eachmatch(r, s, overlap = overlap)))
+
 # END 0.7 deprecations
 
 # BEGIN 1.0 deprecations

base/exports.jl

@@ -462,7 +462,6 @@ export
     findprev,
     occursin,
     match,
-    matchall,
     searchsorted,
     searchsortedfirst,
     searchsortedlast,

base/regex.jl

@@ -205,66 +205,6 @@ match(r::Regex, s::AbstractString, i::Integer) = throw(ArgumentError(
     "regex matching is only available for the String type; use String(s) to convert"
 ))
 
-"""
-    matchall(r::Regex, s::AbstractString; overlap::Bool = false]) -> Vector{AbstractString}
-
-Return a vector of the matching substrings from [`eachmatch`](@ref).
-
-
-# Examples
-```jldoctest
-julia> rx = r"a.a"
-r"a.a"
-
-julia> matchall(rx, "a1a2a3a")
-2-element Array{SubString{String},1}:
- "a1a"
- "a3a"
-
-julia> matchall(rx, "a1a2a3a", overlap = true)
-3-element Array{SubString{String},1}:
- "a1a"
- "a2a"
- "a3a"
-```
-"""
-function matchall(re::Regex, str::String; overlap::Bool = false)
-    regex = compile(re).regex
-    n = sizeof(str)
-    matches = SubString{String}[]
-    offset = UInt32(0)
-    opts = re.match_options
-    opts_nonempty = opts | PCRE.ANCHORED | PCRE.NOTEMPTY_ATSTART
-    prevempty = false
-    ovec = re.ovec
-    while true
-        result = PCRE.exec(regex, str, offset, prevempty ? opts_nonempty : opts, re.match_data)
-        if !result
-            if prevempty && offset < n
-                offset = UInt32(nextind(str, offset + 1) - 1)
-                prevempty = false
-                continue
-            else
-                break
-            end
-        end
-
-        push!(matches, SubString(str, ovec[1]+1, ovec[2]))
-        prevempty = offset == ovec[2]
-        if overlap
-            if !prevempty
-                offset = UInt32(ovec[1]+1)
-            end
-        else
-            offset = ovec[2]
-        end
-    end
-    matches
-end
-
-matchall(re::Regex, str::SubString; overlap::Bool = false) =
-    matchall(re, String(str), overlap = overlap)
-
 # TODO: return only start index and update deprecation
 function findnext(re::Regex, str::Union{String,SubString}, idx::Integer)
     if idx > nextind(str,lastindex(str))

doc/src/base/strings.md

@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ Base.isvalid(::Any, ::Any)
 Base.isvalid(::AbstractString, ::Integer)
 Base.match
 Base.eachmatch
-Base.matchall
 Base.isless(::AbstractString, ::AbstractString)
 Base.:(==)(::AbstractString, ::AbstractString)
 Base.cmp(::AbstractString, ::AbstractString)

stdlib/Markdown/src/render/plain.jl

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ end
 function plain(io::IO, code::Code)
     # If the code includes a fenced block this will break parsing,
     # so it must be enclosed by a longer ````-sequence.
-    n = mapreduce(length, max, 2, matchall(r"^`+"m, code.code)) + 1
+    n = mapreduce(m -> length(m.match), max, 2, eachmatch(r"^`+"m, code.code)) + 1
     println(io, "`" ^ n, code.language)
     println(io, code.code)
     println(io, "`" ^ n)
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ plaininline(io::IO, md::Italic) = plaininline(io, "*", md.text, "*")
 
 function plaininline(io::IO, md::Code)
     if contains(md.code, "`")
-        n = maximum(length(m) for m in matchall(r"(`+)", md.code))
+        n = maximum(length(m.match) for m in eachmatch(r"(`+)", md.code))
         s = "`"^((iseven(n) ? 1 : 2) + n)
         print(io, s, Base.startswith(md.code, "`") ? " " : "")
         print(io, md.code, endswith(md.code, "`") ? " " : "", s)

stdlib/REPL/src/REPLCompletions.jl

@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ function complete_path(path::AbstractString, pos; use_envpath=false)
     end
 
     matchList = String[replace(s, r"\s" => "\\ ") for s in matches]
-    startpos = pos - lastindex(prefix) + 1 - length(matchall(r" ", prefix))
+    startpos = pos - lastindex(prefix) + 1 - count(equalto(' '), prefix)
     # The pos - lastindex(prefix) + 1 is correct due to `lastindex(prefix)-lastindex(prefix)==0`,
     # hence we need to add one to get the first index. This is also correct when considering
     # pos, because pos is the `lastindex` a larger string which `endswith(path)==true`.

test/regex.jl

@@ -4,22 +4,21 @@ function collect_eachmatch(re, str; overlap=false)
     [m.match for m in collect(eachmatch(re, str, overlap = overlap))]
 end
 
-for f in [matchall, collect_eachmatch]
-    @test f(r"a?b?", "asbd") == ["a","","b","",""] == f(r"""a?b?""", "asbd")
-    @test f(r"a?b?", "asbd", overlap=true) == ["a","","b","",""]
-    @test f(r"\w+", "hello", overlap=true) == ["hello","ello","llo","lo","o"]
-    @test f(r".\s", "x \u2200 x \u2203 y") == ["x ", "∀ ", "x ", "∃ "]
-    @test f(r"(\w+)(\s*)", "The dark side of the moon") ==
-          ["The ", "dark ", "side ", "of ", "the ", "moon"]
-    @test f(r"", "") == [""]
-    @test f(r"", "", overlap=true) == [""]
-    @test f(r"aa", "aaaa") == ["aa", "aa"]
-    @test f(r"aa", "aaaa", overlap=true) == ["aa", "aa", "aa"]
-    @test f(r"", "aaa") == ["", "", "", ""]
-    @test f(r"", "aaa", overlap=true) == ["", "", "", ""]
-    @test f(r"GCG","GCGCG") == ["GCG"]
-    @test f(r"GCG","GCGCG",overlap=true) == ["GCG","GCG"]
-end
+@test collect_eachmatch(r"a?b?", "asbd") == ["a","","b","",""] ==
+    collect_eachmatch(r"""a?b?""", "asbd")
+@test collect_eachmatch(r"a?b?", "asbd", overlap=true) == ["a","","b","",""]
+@test collect_eachmatch(r"\w+", "hello", overlap=true) == ["hello","ello","llo","lo","o"]
+@test collect_eachmatch(r".\s", "x \u2200 x \u2203 y") == ["x ", "∀ ", "x ", "∃ "]
+@test collect_eachmatch(r"(\w+)(\s*)", "The dark side of the moon") ==
+    ["The ", "dark ", "side ", "of ", "the ", "moon"]
+@test collect_eachmatch(r"", "") == [""]
+@test collect_eachmatch(r"", "", overlap=true) == [""]
+@test collect_eachmatch(r"aa", "aaaa") == ["aa", "aa"]
+@test collect_eachmatch(r"aa", "aaaa", overlap=true) == ["aa", "aa", "aa"]
+@test collect_eachmatch(r"", "aaa") == ["", "", "", ""]
+@test collect_eachmatch(r"", "aaa", overlap=true) == ["", "", "", ""]
+@test collect_eachmatch(r"GCG","GCGCG") == ["GCG"]
+@test collect_eachmatch(r"GCG","GCGCG",overlap=true) == ["GCG","GCG"]
 
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