Seed?

[jbrooksuk]

What does the seed do? It's default is false but there is no way of overwriting it. It's not changed anywhere, so is it needed?

[selvinortiz]

The seed is not in use currently but it will be used for: match( $subject, $seed=null ) and replace( $replacement, $subject, $seed=null ) which will be implemented before 0.5 (stable)!

[jbrooksuk]

What does it do exactly?

[selvinortiz]

The idea of seed is so that you can bypass the fluent expression builder and pass along your own expression/pattern string to be used in the match() and replace() methods.

So you could build your own pattern with the fluent interface as you'll do most of the time but there may be times when you may wish to pass along your own regular expression pattern, one case might be when running unit tests or testing output when a fluently built pattern isn't doing what you expect.

$flux = new namespace\Flux;
$flux->startOfLine()->anything()->endOfLine(); // Pattern /^(.*)$/
$flux->match( 'Anything but a new line!' ); // Uses the pattern built above
$flux->match( 'Anything but a new line!', '/^(.*)$/' ); // Uses the seed

[jbrooksuk]

Oh I see. So you could validate the seeds regex using this.

[jbrooksuk]

I've added this to my port now too.

[selvinortiz]

@jbrooksuk Awesome: )