Method -chaining implementation of [VerEx](http://verbalexpressions.github.io/) in Ruby. The other [implementation](https://github.com/ryan-endacott/verbal_expressions) uses DSL. This is just a emperiment. May have a lot of bugs, and is not by any means complete.

VerEx.rb

# This is a program trying to implement Verbal Expressions
# See this for more info - http://verbalexpressions.github.io/

def VerEx
	return VerExClass.new
end

class VerExClass
	@regex = "" # The main regex variable

	def intitialize reg
		@regex = reg
	end

	def final_regex
		return @regex
	end

	def add value
		@regex << value
	end

	def start_of_line
		if @regex == nil 
			@regex = "^"			
		else
			self.add("^")
		end

		return self
	end

	def end_of_line
		self.add("$")

		return self
	end

	def find value
		self.add("(" + Regexp.escape(value) + ")")

		return self
	end

	def then value
		return self.find Regexp.escape(value)
	end

	def maybe value
		self.add("(" + Regexp.escape(value) + ")?")

		return self
	end

	def anything
		self.add("(?:.*)")

		return self
	end

	def anything_but value
		self.add("([^" + Regexp.escape(value) + "]*)")

		return self
	end

	def something 
		self.add("(?:.+)")

		return self
	end

	def something_but value
		self.add("(?:[^" + Regexp.escape(value) + "]+)")

		return self
	end

	def line_break
		self.add("(?:(?:\n)|(?:\r\n))")

		return self
	end

	def tab
		self.add("\t")
	end

	def match matching_string
		return Regexp.compile(@regex).match(matching_string)
	end
end

# Tests - 

if __FILE__ == $0 

	reg2 = VerEx().
		start_of_line.
		find('http').
		maybe('s').
		find('://').
		maybe('www.').
		anything_but(' ').
		end_of_line()

	if (reg2.match "https://www.google.com")
		puts "Matched"
	else
		puts "Not matched"
	end

	puts reg2.final_regex
	puts "^(http)(s)?(\:\/\/)(www\.)?([^\ ]*)$"
	if %r ^(http)(s)?(\:\/\/)(www\.)?([^\ ]*)$ .match "https://google.com"
		puts "True"
	end

end

Interesting....