Regex Capture Trees

[osamakawish]

This is to simplify regex captures a little. Although this can be done on the side, it would be more efficiently done in the code behind.

Basically, each regex Capture should be treated as a type of a Match, with it's own captures which are in the form of an ordered list or a CaptureCollection.

This is mainly for captures containing captures, like "Email" : "((\w+)@(\w+).com)".

For "Email": "[email protected]", you'd have:

1. [email protected]
   1.1. address
   1.2. gmail

Edit. It's worth clarifying that captures not containing captures would simply have an empty CaptureCollection.

[333fred]

This seems more like an API request. I'm going to move to the runtime repo.

[ghost]

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[pgovind]

@osamakawish , would you able to come up with a more detailed API proposal with use cases and justifications? Some examples of recent API proposals are: #50902, #50389

[osamakawish]

I think I'm over thinking this. It would be relatively easy to implement on your own and probably just as efficient performance-wise than I originally thought.