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8884 :: How's regex modifier in nim PCRE ?

• mardiyah (orginal) [2022-02-09T04:48:56+01:00] view original

  How's regex modifier done as in Perl itself e.g. / foobar /i or / foobar.* /s , etc ? Please clarify doing in nim, thanks much in advance

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• DeletedUser (orginal) [2022-02-09T06:45:36+01:00] view original

  With re you supply a set of RegexFlag arguments to the re function, with nre you supply them inside the regex.

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• mardiyah (orginal) [2022-02-09T06:50:35+01:00] view original

  Would you please clarify it in examples ?

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• DeletedUser (orginal) [2022-02-09T07:09:35+01:00] view original

  import re let reg1 = re("foo bar", {reIgnoreCase, reExtended}) # or import nre let reg2 = re"(?ix)foo bar"

  Run

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• mardiyah (orginal) [2022-02-09T07:13:58+01:00] view original

  Excellent ! thanks, more importantly God bless you

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• juancarlospaco (orginal) [2022-02-09T12:35:21+01:00] view original

  I think would be nice to have a macro that allows the syntax /foobar/i, that is just sugar for any other Regex engines, like jsre, re, nre and others.

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