Class Regexp.PCRE._pcre

Method create

Regexp.PCRE._pcre Regexp.PCRE._pcre(string pattern, void|int options, void|object table)

Description

The option bits are:

OPTION.ANCHORED	Force pattern anchoring
OPTION.CASELESS	Do caseless matching
OPTION.DOLLAR_ENDONLY	$ not to match newline at end
OPTION.DOTALL	. matches anything including NL
OPTION.EXTENDED	Ignore whitespace and # comments
OPTION.EXTRA	PCRE extra features (not much use currently)
OPTION.MULTILINE	^ and $ match newlines within data
OPTION.NO_AUTO_CAPTURE	Disable numbered capturing parentheses (named ones available)
OPTION.UNGREEDY	Invert greediness of quantifiers
OPTION.UTF8	Run in UTF-8 mode