Pike v8.0 release 1738

Method Regexp.PCRE._pcre()->create()


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