Summary
Compiles a regular expression
Prototype
re = rex.new (pattern, flags)
Description
This compiles a pattern, returning a regular expression object that can be used to test regular expressions. For example:
re = rex.new ("(.+) goes (.+)")
Flags are optional. If you want to use them you can use the rex.flags () function to convert various flags into numbers.
See Also ...
Lua functions
re:exec - Matches a regexp to a string, returning offsets
re:gmatch - Matches a regexp to a string, applying a function
re:match - Matches a regexp to a string
rex.flags - Returns a table of PCRE flags
Topics
Lua base functions
Lua bc (big number) functions
Lua bit manipulation functions
Lua coroutine functions
Lua debug functions
Lua io functions
Lua LPEG library
Lua math functions
Lua os functions
Lua package functions
Lua PCRE regular expression functions
Lua script extensions
Lua string functions
Lua syntax
Lua table functions
Lua utilities
Scripting
Scripting callbacks - plugins
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