RegExp

It is wrapper of Golang RegExp.

module methods:

• :

value methods:

• match?
• expr
• groups
• names
• literal_prefix
• find
• find_all

:

Returns a new regular expression value.

(RegExp: expr(string)) -> RegExp

match?

Reports whether source contains any match of the regular expression.

(RegExp match? source(string)) -> bool

expr

Returns source text to compile regular expression.

(RegExp expr) -> string

groups

Returns the number of parenthesized subexpressions in the regular expression.

(RegExp groups) -> int

names

Returns the names of the parenthesized subexpressions in the regular expression.

(RegExp names) -> [string...]

literal_prefix

Returns a 2-element list [literal boolean], where literal string that must begin any match of the regular expression. It returns the boolean true if the literal string comprises the entire regular expression.

(RegExp literal_prefix) -> [string, boolean]

longest

Makes future searches prefer the leftmost-longest match.

(RegExp longest) -> self

find

Returns a string holding the text of the leftmost match in s of the regular expression. If there is no match, the return value is an empty string, but it will also be empty if the regular expression successfully matches an empty string.

(RegExp find s(string)) -> string

find_all

Returns a list of all successive matches of the expression. i finger out number of results you want.

(RegExp find_all s(string) [i(int)]) -> [string...]