Regex::compile(3) Compile a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

Regex compile( String pattern, [REFlags] fl=createArray(1) )

ARGUMENTS

pattern The regular expression pattern to compile

fl A list of Regex.REFlags(3kaya) options for the regular expression. This parameter is optional and defaults to the empty list.

DESCRIPTION

Compile a regular expression and return the compiled Regex.Regex(3kaya)
 This can then be re-used in several function calls for greater efficiency.

Note that if a literal backslash needs to be matched, it must be written as "\\\\" as both Kaya and PCRE will interpret one layer of backslashes. You can avoid this from Kaya 0.2.6 onwards by using a raw string instead.


 // these two are equivalent
 test1 = quickMatch("\\\\",string);
 test2 = quickMatch(R"\\",string);

AUTHORS

Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others ([email protected]). For further information see http://kayalang.org/

LICENSE

The Kaya standard library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (version 2.1 or any later version) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

RELATED

Regex.match(3kaya)

Regex.quickMatch(3kaya)

Regex.replace(3kaya)

Regex.split(3kaya)

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