Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 866 at 2016-11-06.
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Regexp
Regexp.PCRE
Regexp.PCRE._pcre

Methods
 _sprintf()
 create()
 exec()
 get_stringnumber()
 info()
 study()
previousRegexp.PCRE._pcre()->info()
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Method Regexp.PCRE._pcre()->study()

Method study

object study()

Description

(from the pcreapi man-page) "When a pattern is going to be used several times, it is worth spending more time analyzing it in order to speed up the time taken for match- ing."