rex.flags
Lua function rex.flags Summary Returns a table of PCRE flags Prototype `flag_table = rex.flags ()` Description `This returns a table of PCRE flags. You can index into this to get various compile and runtime flags. The following are valid compile-time flags: ANCHORED CASELESS DOLLAR_ENDONLY DOTALL EXTENDED EXTRA MULTILINE NO_AUTO_CAPTURE UNGREEDY UTF8 The following are valid execution-time flags: ANCHORED NOTBOL NOTEOL NOTEMPTY An example of using the flags would be:
    re = rex.new ("(.+) goes (.+)", rex.flags ().CASELESS)
This would make a caseless regular expression.` See Also ... Topics Lua base functions Lua bc (big number) functions Lua bit manipulation functions Lua coroutine functions Lua debug functions Lua io functions Lua math functions Lua os functions Lua package functions Lua PCRE regular expression functions Lua script extensions Lua string functions Lua table functions Lua utilities Scripting 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.new (Compiles a regular expression) (Help topic: lua=rex.flags) Documentation contents page