NAME

       Regex::compile - Compile a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       Regex compile( String pattern, [REFlags] fl=createArray(1) )

ARGUMENTS

       pattern The regular expression pattern to compile

       fl  A  list of Regex.REFlags (3kaya) options for the regular expression. This parameter is
       optional and defaults to the empty list.

DESCRIPTION

       Compile a regular expression and return the compiled Regex.Regex (3kaya)
        This can then be re-used in several function calls for greater efficiency.

       Note that if a literal backslash needs to be matched, it must be written as "\\\\" as both
       Kaya  and PCRE will interpret one layer of backslashes. You can avoid this from Kaya 0.2.6
       onwards by using a raw string instead.

    // these two are equivalent
    test1 = quickMatch("\\\\",string);
    test2 = quickMatch(R"\\",string);

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.match (3kaya)
       Regex.quickMatch (3kaya)
       Regex.replace (3kaya)
       Regex.split (3kaya)