NAME

       Regex::match - Attempt to match a regular expression.

SYNOPSIS

       Match match( Regex x, String str )

ARGUMENTS

       x A compiled regular expression

       str The String to match

DESCRIPTION

       Attempt  to  match  a  compiled  regular  expression  to a string, returning a Regex.Match
       (3kaya) object.

    r = compile("s$");
    s1 = "sausages";
    m1 = match(r,s1); // matches(["s"],"sausage","")
    s2 = "a sausage";
    m2 = match(r,s2); // noMatch

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)
       Regex.quickMatch (3kaya)
       Regex.quickMatch_1 (3kaya)