LACE: Add PCRE support to simple matcherdsilvers/revamp-patterns

This adds PCRE support to the simple matcher.  In order for this to work,
lrexlib is required (lua-rex-pcre in Debian/Ubuntu).

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/gitano/lace.lua b/lib/gitano/lace.lua
index 7fc1be5..97ed91b 100644
--- a/lib/gitano/lace.lua
+++ b/lib/gitano/lace.lua
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ local util = require 'gitano.util'
 local gall = require 'gall'
 local log = require 'gitano.log'
 
+local pcre = require "rex_pcre"
+
 local function _loader(ctx, _name)
    local global_name = _name:match("^global:(.+)$")
    local name, tree, sha = global_name or _name
@@ -56,7 +58,10 @@ local match_types = {
 	    end,
    pattern = function(want, have)
 		return (have:match(want) ~= nil)
-	     end
+	     end,
+   pcre = function(want, have)
+	     return (pcre.match(have, want) ~= nil)
+	  end
 }
 
 do