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doc: add a doctest to demonstrate a separately-compiled regex set
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- explicitly link to and describe the operations that aren't available
- reflow text and uncomment use statement
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cosmicexplorer committed May 31, 2022
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/// 1. Does any regex in the set match?
/// 2. If so, which regexes in the set match?
///
/// As with the main `Regex` type, it is cheaper to ask (1) instead of (2)
/// since the matching engines can stop after the first match is found.
/// As with the main [`Regex`][crate::Regex] type, it is cheaper to ask (1)
/// instead of (2) since the matching engines can stop after the first match
/// is found.
///
/// Other features like finding the location of successive matches or their
/// sub-captures aren't supported. If you need this functionality, the
/// recommended approach is to compile each regex in the set independently and
/// selectively match them based on which regexes in the set matched.
/// You cannot directly extract [`Match`][crate::Match] or
/// [`Captures`][crate::Captures] objects from a regex set. If you need these
/// operations, the recommended approach is to compile each pattern in the set
/// independently and scan the exact same input a second time with those
/// independently compiled patterns:
///
/// ```rust
///
/// use regex::{Regex, RegexSet};
/// let patterns = ["foo", "bar"];
/// // Both patterns will match different ranges of this string.
/// let text = "barfoo";
///
/// // Compile a set matching any of our patterns.
/// let set = RegexSet::new(&patterns).unwrap();
/// // Compile each pattern independently.
/// let regexes: Vec<_> = patterns.iter()
/// .map(|pat| Regex::new(pat).unwrap())
/// .collect();
///
/// // Match against the whole set first and identify the individual
/// // matching patterns.
/// let matches: Vec<&str> = set.matches(text).into_iter()
/// // Dereference the match index to get the corresponding
/// // compiled pattern.
/// .map(|match_idx| &regexes[match_idx])
/// // To get match locations or any other info, we then have to search
/// // the exact same text again, using our separately-compiled pattern.
/// .map(|pat| pat.find(text).unwrap().as_str())
/// .collect();
///
/// // Matches arrive in the order the constituent patterns were declared,
/// // not the order they appear in the input.
/// assert_eq!(vec!["foo", "bar"], matches);
/// ```
///
/// # Performance
///
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