Regex.matchSimple

Scans for a match in @string for @pattern.

This function is equivalent to g_regex_match() but it does not require to compile the pattern with g_regex_new(), avoiding some lines of code when you need just to do a match without extracting substrings, capture counts, and so on.

If this function is to be called on the same @pattern more than once, it's more efficient to compile the pattern once with g_regex_new() and then use g_regex_match().

class Regex
static
bool
matchSimple

Parameters

pattern string

the regular expression

str string

the string to scan for matches

compileOptions GRegexCompileFlags

compile options for the regular expression, or 0

matchOptions GRegexMatchFlags

match options, or 0

Return Value

Type: bool

%TRUE if the string matched, %FALSE otherwise

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Since

2.14