Class Regexp.SimpleRegexp

Description

This class implements the interface to a simple regexp engine with the following capabilities:

. Matches any character.

[abc] Matches a, b or c.

[a-z] Matches any character a to z inclusive.

[^ac] Matches any character except a and c.

(x) Matches x (x might be any regexp) If used with split, this also puts the string matching x into the result array.

x* Matches zero or more occurances of 'x' (x may be any regexp).

x+ Matches one or more occurances of 'x' (x may be any regexp).

x|y Matches x or y. (x or y may be any regexp).

xy Matches xy (x and y may be any regexp).

^ Matches beginning of string (but no characters).

$ Matches end of string (but no characters).

\< Matches the beginning of a word (but no characters).

\> Matches the end of a word (but no characters).

Note that \ can be used to quote these characters in which case they match themselves, nothing else. Also note that when quoting these something in Pike you need two \ because Pike also uses this character for quoting.

Inherit _SimpleRegexp: inherit _SimpleRegexp : _SimpleRegexp