Merge pull request #1412 from manuel-rubio/manuel-rubio/add-re-version

Add re:version/0

OTP-14347

3 files changed, 26 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/re.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/re.xml
index aadb5beaba..078ca0e38c 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/re.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/re.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <header>
     <copyright>
       <year>2007</year>
-      <year>2016</year>
+      <year>2017</year>
       <holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
     </copyright>
     <legalnotice>
@@ -79,6 +79,14 @@
 
   <funcs>
     <func>
+      <name name="version" arity="0"/>
+      <fsummary>Gives the PCRE version of the system in a string format</fsummary>
+      <desc>
+      <p>The return of this function is a string with the PCRE version of the system that was used in the Erlang/OTP compilation.</p>
+      </desc>
+    </func>
+
+    <func>
       <name name="compile" arity="1"/>
       <fsummary>Compile a regular expression into a match program</fsummary>
       <desc>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/src/re.erl b/lib/stdlib/src/re.erl
index 52d3c35608..28aab7b590 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/src/re.erl
+++ b/lib/stdlib/src/re.erl
@@ -33,7 +33,12 @@
 
 %%% BIFs
 
--export([compile/1, compile/2, run/2, run/3, inspect/2]).
+-export([version/0, compile/1, compile/2, run/2, run/3, inspect/2]).
+
+-spec version() -> binary().
+
+version() ->
+    erlang:nif_error(undef).
 
 -spec compile(Regexp) -> {ok, MP} | {error, ErrSpec} when
       Regexp :: iodata(),
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/test/re_SUITE.erl b/lib/stdlib/test/re_SUITE.erl
index a76ded5f60..71f86e32e5 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/test/re_SUITE.erl
+++ b/lib/stdlib/test/re_SUITE.erl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 %%
 %% %CopyrightBegin%
 %%
-%% Copyright Ericsson AB 2008-2016. All Rights Reserved.
+%% Copyright Ericsson AB 2008-2017. All Rights Reserved.
 %%
 %% Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 %% you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 	 run_options/1,combined_options/1,replace_autogen/1,
 	 global_capture/1,replace_input_types/1,replace_return/1,
 	 split_autogen/1,split_options/1,split_specials/1,
-	 error_handling/1,pcre_cve_2008_2371/1,
+	 error_handling/1,pcre_cve_2008_2371/1,re_version/1,
 	 pcre_compile_workspace_overflow/1,re_infinite_loop/1, 
 	 re_backwards_accented/1,opt_dupnames/1,opt_all_names/1,inspect/1,
 	 opt_no_start_optimize/1,opt_never_utf/1,opt_ucp/1,
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ all() ->
      pcre_compile_workspace_overflow, re_infinite_loop, 
      re_backwards_accented, opt_dupnames, opt_all_names, 
      inspect, opt_no_start_optimize,opt_never_utf,opt_ucp,
-     match_limit, sub_binaries].
+     match_limit, sub_binaries, re_version].
 
 groups() -> 
     [].
@@ -194,6 +194,14 @@ run_options(Config) when is_list(Config) ->
 
 
 
+%% Test the version is retorned correctly
+re_version(_Config) ->
+    Version = re:version(),
+    {match,[Version]} = re:run(Version,"^[0-9]\\.[0-9]{2} 20[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}",[{capture,all,binary}]),
+    ok.
+
+
+
 %% Test compile options given directly to run.
 combined_options(Config) when is_list(Config) ->
     ok = crtest("ABDabcdABCD","abcd",[],true,{match,[{3,4}]}),