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Syntax

["Regexp", "Flags"], [...]

Parameters

  • Regexp A regular expression object

  • Flags Regular expressions have optional flags that allow for functionality like global searching and case-insensitive searching

FlagDescription

d

Generate indices for substring matches

g

Find all matches rather than stopping after the first match

i

If u flag is also enabled, use Unicode case folding

m

Treat beginning and end characters (^ and $) as working over multiple lines. In other words, match the beginning or end of each line (delimited by or ), not only the very beginning or end of the whole input string

s

Allows . to match newlines

u

Treat pattern as a sequence of Unicode code points

Return Value

All results matching the complete regular expression will be returned.

Example

["[0-9]", "g"], ["[a-zA-Z]+", "g"]
["\\p{sc=Latin}", "gu"]
["[^\\x00-\\x7F]+", "g"]
["[^\\u0000-\\u007F]+", "g"]
["[一-龠]+|[ぁ-ゔ]+|[ァ-ヴー]+|[々〆〤]+|[⺀-⿕]+|[、-〿]+|[ㇰ-ㇿ㈠-㉃㊀-㍿]+", "gmu"]

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