Regex.compile(3kaya)
NAME
Regex::compile - 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 effi
- ciency.
- 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
(kaya@kayalang.org). 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)