Regex.matchSimple

Scans for a match in string for pattern.

This function is equivalent to glib.regex.Regex.match but it does not require to compile the pattern with glib.regex.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 glib.regex.Regex.new_ and then use glib.regex.Regex.match.

class Regex

static

bool

matchSimple

(

string pattern

string string_

glib.types.RegexCompileFlags compileOptions

glib.types.RegexMatchFlags matchOptions

)

Parameters

pattern string: the regular expression
string_ string: the string to scan for matches
compileOptions glib.types.RegexCompileFlags: compile options for the regular expression, or 0
matchOptions glib.types.RegexMatchFlags: match options, or 0

Return Value

Type: bool

true if the string matched, false otherwise