Introduce Regex::isLiteralERE function.

This will be used to implement an optimisation for literal entries
in special case lists.

Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1278

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@187731 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Support/Regex.cpp b/lib/Support/Regex.cpp
index efc8b90a00..dec967e33f 100644
--- a/lib/Support/Regex.cpp
+++ b/lib/Support/Regex.cpp
@@ -168,3 +168,10 @@ std::string Regex::sub(StringRef Repl, StringRef String,
 
   return Res;
 }
+
+bool Regex::isLiteralERE(StringRef Str) {
+  // Check for regex metacharacters.  This list was derived from our regex
+  // implementation in regcomp.c and double checked against the POSIX extended
+  // regular expression specification.
+  return Str.find_first_of("()^$|*+?.[]\\{}") == StringRef::npos;
+}