Enumerations

Options

enum {
  AGRegexCaseInsensitive = 1,
  AGRegexDotAll = 2,
  AGRegexExtended = 4,
  AGRegexLazy = 8,
  AGRegexMultiline = 16
};

Options defined for -initWithPattern:options:. Two or more options can be combined with the bitwise OR operator.

Constants

Name Description

AGRegexCaseInsensitive Matching is case insensitive. Equivalent to /i in Perl.

AGRegexDotAll Dot metacharacter matches any character including newline. Equivalent to /s in Perl.

AGRegexExtended Allow whitespace and comments in the pattern. Equivalent to /x in Perl.

AGRegexLazy Makes greedy quantifiers lazy and lazy quantifiers greedy. No equivalent in Perl.

AGRegexMultiline Caret and dollar anchors match at newline. Equivalent to /m in Perl.

Name	Description
`AGRegexCaseInsensitive`	Matching is case insensitive. Equivalent to /i in Perl.
`AGRegexDotAll`	Dot metacharacter matches any character including newline. Equivalent to /s in Perl.
`AGRegexExtended`	Allow whitespace and comments in the pattern. Equivalent to /x in Perl.
`AGRegexLazy`	Makes greedy quantifiers lazy and lazy quantifiers greedy. No equivalent in Perl.
`AGRegexMultiline`	Caret and dollar anchors match at newline. Equivalent to /m in Perl.

(Last Updated 9/12/2003)