NAME¶

Regex::REFlags - Flags for regular expression compilation

SYNOPSIS¶

Regex::REFlags< >

= IgnoreCase()

| Extended()

| Multiline()

| Ungreedy()

DESCRIPTION¶

Flags for regular expression compilation

- IgnoreCase makes the expression case-insensitive (so "^a" would match "All" and "all"

- Extended when set causes whitespace in the pattern (other than in a character class) and characters between a '#' outside a character class and the next newline character to be ignored. An escaping backslash can be used to include a whitespace or '#' character as part of the pattern.

- Multiline changes the meaning of the start '^' and end '$' characters so that as well as matching the start and end of the string, they will also match immediately after and immediately before a newline '\n' character.

- Ungreedy causes the expression and sub-expressions to find the smallest possible match, rather than the largest possible, unless a '?' is placed after the expression. For example, the pattern "a.*a" would match "aca" if ungreedy, and "acada" if greedy in the string "bacadaf".

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.compile (3kaya)