Parsing changelogs using regex with Go
Posted on 08 Aug, 2021
Consider a sample
CHANGELOG.md file like this# Changelog
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
## [0.4] - Nov 11, 2019
### Added
- `getSubmissionDate()`, `getExitCode` new methods.
- Official Documentation.
### Changed
- Class Run `init` - Now you can pass _source code_, _input_ and _output_ to program as strings (limited to file paths in prior versions).
## [0.3] - Nov 9, 2019
### Added
- Removed redundant imports
- Added Module/Class docstrings for documentation
- Formatted Code
## [0.2] - Oct 31, 2019
### Changed
- Fix import requests problem.
## [0.1] - Oct 30, 2019
- Initial Release
The following golang code can be used to extract the changelog for a requested version
// Parse a changelog.md file and display changelog for a requested version
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"os"
"regexp"
"strings"
)
func Parse(match string, rem string) string {
// remove the enclosing pattern of previous release
temp := strings.TrimSuffix(match, rem)
return strings.Trim(temp, "\r\n")
}
func main() {
enclosingPattern := `## [`
var submatchall []string
// prefixing verion number 0.6 with v won't work
ver := "0.3"
// Every new version looks like this: ## [1.4.0] - Jan 12, 2069
// (?s) + <enclosing pattern> + <version-number> + .* + </enclosingPattern>
// (?s) : Make the dot match all characters including line break characters
// .* : . (dot) indicates any character whereas * specifies 0 or more instances of previous token
// var re = regexp.MustCompile(`(?s)## \[0.6.*?## \[`)
var re = regexp.MustCompile(`(?s)` + `## \[` + ver + `.*?` + `## \[`)
data, err := ioutil.ReadFile("CHANGELOG.md")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("File reading error", err)
}
fileContent := string(data)
submatchall = re.FindAllString(fileContent, 1)
if len(submatchall) == 1 {
fmt.Println(Parse(submatchall[0], enclosingPattern))
} else {
fmt.Println("No changelog or invalid version", ver)
os.Exit(1)
}
}
Here is a sample output
$ go run changelog-parser.go
## [0.3] - Nov 9, 2019
### Added
- Removed redundant imports
- Added Module/Class docstrings for documentation
- Formatted Code