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regex.compile

Syntax	regex.compile (pattern, caseSenstive, fastmap)
Params	pattern is a string containing the regular expression to be compiled. caseSensitive is an optional boolean flag. Default is false fastmap is an optional boolean flag. Default is true.
Action	Compiles a regular expression and allocates memory for the compiled pattern and additional data structures.
Returns	A reference to a compiled pattern (as a longint).
Examples	`regex.compile ("<([^>]+)>") » 1375960`
Notes	Matching this pattern to a target will be case insensitive if the parameter caseSensitive is false, otherwise, the matching will be case sensitive. After you are done with a pattern, you should call regex.free to release the allocated memory. In general, compiling with fastmap set to true results in faster searches and matches. If a fastmap is used, an additional block of 256 bytes is allocated for each pattern.
See Also	regex.free

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