// include the latest version of the regex crate in your Cargo.toml
extern crate regex;
use regex::Regex;
fn main() {
let regex = Regex::new(r"(?m)^(?:--|[[:space:]]+).+").unwrap();
let string = "-- Query taken from:
-- https://stackoverflow.com/a/12467388/1655567
SELECT country.name as country, country.headofstate
from country
-- Worst place to add comment ever
-- Here is even uglier
inner join city on city.id = country.capital
where city.population > 100000
-- this comment makes no sense here and would break sql parser buyt hey
and country.headofstate like 'A%'
-- WOW!";
// result will be an iterator over tuples containing the start and end indices for each match in the string
let result = regex.captures_iter(string);
for mat in result {
println!("{:?}", mat);
}
}
Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for Rust, please visit: https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/