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class methods
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compile
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Regexp.compile( pattern
[, options [
lang
]
] )
-> aRegexp
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Synonym for Regexp.new.
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escape
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Regexp.escape( aString )
-> aNewString
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Escapes any characters that would have special meaning in a
regular expression. For any string,
Regexp.escape(str)=~str
will be true.
Regexp.escape('\\*?{}.')
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\\\\\*\?\{\}\.
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last_match
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Regexp.last_match
-> aMatchData
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Returns the MatchData object generated by the last
successful pattern match. Equivalent to reading the global
variable $~. MatchData is described
on page 336.
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new
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Regexp.new( pattern
[, options [
lang
]
] )
-> aRegexp
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Constructs a new regular expression from pattern, which can
be either a String or a Regexp (in which case that
regexp's options are not propagated). If options is
a Fixnum, it should be one or more of the constants
Regexp::EXTENDED, Regexp::IGNORECASE, and
Regexp::POSIXLINE, or-ed together.
Otherwise, if options is not
nil, the regexp will be case insensitive. The lang
parameter enables multibyte support for the regexp: `n', `N' = none,
`e', `E' = EUC, `s', `S' = SJIS, `u',
`U' = UTF-8.
r1 = Regexp.new('^a-z+:\\s+\w+')
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/^a-z+:\s+\w+/
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r2 = Regexp.new(r1, true)
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/^a-z+:\s+\w+/i
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r3 = Regexp.new(r2, Regexp::EXTENDED)
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/^a-z+:\s+\w+/x
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quote
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Regexp.quote( aString )
-> aNewString
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Synonym for Regexp.escape.
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instance methods
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==
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rxp == aRegexp
-> true or false
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Equality---Two regexps are equal if their patterns are identical, they have
the same character set code, and their casefold? values are
the same.
/abc/ == /abc/x
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false
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/abc/ == /abc/i
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false
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/abc/u == /abc/n
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false
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===
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rxp === aString -> true or false
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Case Equality---Synonym for
Regexp#=~
used in case statements.
a = "HELLO"
case a
when /^a-z*$/; print "Lower case\n"
when /^A-Z*$/; print "Upper case\n"
else; print "Mixed case\n"
end
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produces:
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=~
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rxp =~ aString
-> anInteger or nil
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Match---Matches rxp against aString, returning the offset
of the start of the match or nil if the match failed.
/SIT/ =~ "insensitive"
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nil
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/SIT/i =~ "insensitive"
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5
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~
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~ rxp
-> anInteger or nil
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Match---Matches rxp against the contents of $_. Equivalent to
rxp =~ $_.
$_ = "input data"
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~ /at/
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7
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casefold?
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rxp.casefold? -> true or false
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Returns the value of the case-insensitive flag.
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kcode
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rxp.kcode -> aString
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Returns the character set code for the regexp.
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match
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rxp.match(aString)
-> aMatchData or nil
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Returns a MatchData object (see page 336)
describing the match, or nil if there was no match. This
is equivalent to retrieving the value of the special variable
$~ following a normal match.
/(.)(.)(.)/.match("abc")[2]
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"b"
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source
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rxp.source -> aString
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Returns the original string of the pattern.
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