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)

Kaya                                                July 2013                               Regex.compile(3kaya)