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Improves the CocoaPods spec metadata by explicitly annotating the license file as "MIT". Thanks @AlexeyVasilyevRN!

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New:

• Adds a new option regex option .allowCommentsAndWhitespace, allowing for richer, self-documenting regular expression patterns. (#66 — thanks @remithaunay!)

Improved:

• Updated internals to use the modern built in conversions between NSRange and Range<String.Index>. This should improve performance and potentially correctness! (#69)

It Just Feels Better

Say hello to Regex version 2, including support for Swift 5! This release adds no new functionality, but drops support for Swift versions less than 4.2. Regex 2 should otherwise be fully compatible with Regex 1.1.

Swift Fourtification

Regex now speaks Swift 4! 🎉

Added:

• The Regex type now conforms to Codable, so you can encode and decode regular expressions to your heart's content. (#52)
• MatchResult has a new range property. (#54, thanks @mezhevikin!)
• To go with MatchResult.range, there's also the captureRanges property, allowing you to work with the ranges of capture groups. (#59)

Fixed:

• Regex now handles the newly overhauled String index API, maintaining that sweet, sweet Unicode correctness, whatever your chosen Swift version. (#57, 7952bae, 1a90514, thanks @wspl!)

Thanks for using Regex!

1.0.0: A Regex for the future

Regex is now officially at 1.0.0! 🎉

Here's a quick hit list of features:

• Easily and safely create regular expressions
• When creating a regular expression from a static string, no error handling required
• Great pattern-matching support via Regex.lastMatch
• Type safe access to capture groups
• Convenient extensions to String to support find and replace

I hope you enjoy using Regex!

0.4.3

Fixes a build failure when using Swift Package Manager.

0.4.2

This should add full Swift 3 support for swiftpm and CocoaPods users. Carthage users should be able to opt into Swift 3 using the --toolchain option to carthage build.

Breaking changes to drop Swift 2 support and adopt the Swift API Design Guidelines will be made in a future release.

0.4.1

Added:

• New DotMatchesLineSeparator option allows . to match new line characters such as \n. Thanks @ninjaprawn!

Fail Me...Maybe?

Added:

• New initialiser Regex.init(string:) that throws if the pattern is invalid. Previously it wasn't possible to recover from this scenario.

Changed:

• The existing Regex.init(_:) initialiser now accepts a StaticString instead of a String (meaning that the string must exist statically at compile time), and will trap if an invalid pattern is provided. For dynamically created strings, use Regex.init(string:) instead.

Removed:

• Regex no longer conforms to StringLiteralConvertible. Use Regex.init(_:) instead.

Regex now supports Xcode 8 and Swift 2.3!

Replaceable

Added

• New String methods for performing find and replace operations (#31)
  • replaceFirstMatching(_:with:) - replaces the first match of the given regex with the replacement template
  • replaceAllMatching(_:with:) - replaces all matches of the given regex with the replacement template
  • Non-muting versions of each method for convenience
• New Regex.lastMatch static property that gives access to the last match result when pattern matching (#27)