regex.match, regex.matchW

LuaFAR 3

regex.match, regex.matchW


c1 [,c2]...] = regex.match (s, pattern, [init], [cflags])

Parameters:
  s       :  string
  pattern :  string
  init    :  integer (default=1; can be negative)
  cflags  :  string (any combination of 'i','m','o','s' and 'x')

Returns:
  c1,...  : strings (there can be false in place of captures
                     not participated in the match)

Description:
  The function is API-compatible with string.match, with the
  following extensions:
  -- cflags : optional 4-th parameter: compilation flags;

Note:
regex.matchW receives its 1-st argument and returns captures in
UTF-16LE encoding.

Far API used:
  RegExpControl