# regexoption

Specifies the syntax, character encoding and option of regular expression. (version 4.78 or later)

    regexoption <option1> [<option2> ...]

## Remarks

This command specifies the the syntax, character encoding and option of regular expression regarding the strmatch, strreplace and waitregex.

The option1 [option2 ...] can specify one of below syntaxes or encodings, some options.

default value

Syntax:
  SYNTAX_RUBY
Encoding:
  ENCODING_UTF8
  (ENCODING_ASCII less than version 5.0)
Options:
  OPTION_NONE

Type | Option Name | (short form) | Description
--- | --- | --- | ---
Syntax | SYNTAX_DEFAULT | - | Default (Ruby style)
SYNTAX_ASIS | ASIS | plain text
SYNTAX_POSIX_BASIC | POSIX_BASIC | POSIX Basic RE
SYNTAX_POSIX_EXTENDED | POSIX_EXTENDED | POSIX Extended RE
SYNTAX_EMACS | EMACS | Emacs style RE
SYNTAX_GREP | GREP | grep style RE
SYNTAX_GNU_REGEX | GNU_REGEX | GNU Regex
SYNTAX_JAVA | JAVA | Java style
SYNTAX_PERL | PERL | Perl style
SYNTAX_PERL_NG | PERL_NG | Perl + named group
SYNTAX_RUBY | RUBY | Ruby style
Encoding | ENCODING_ASCII | ASCII | ASCII encoding
ENCODING_ISO_8859_1 | ISO_8859_1 | ISO 8859-1 encoding
ENCODING_ISO_8859_2 | ISO_8859_2 | ISO 8859-2 encoding
ENCODING_ISO_8859_3 | ISO_8859_3 | ISO 8859-3 encoding
ENCODING_ISO_8859_4 | ISO_8859_4 | ISO 8859-4 encoding
ENCODING_ISO_8859_5 | ISO_8859_5 | ISO 8859-5 encoding
ENCODING_ISO_8859_6 | ISO_8859_6 | ISO 8859-6 encoding
ENCODING_ISO_8859_7 | ISO_8859_7 | ISO 8859-7 encoding
ENCODING_ISO_8859_8 | ISO_8859_8 | ISO 8859-8 encoding
ENCODING_ISO_8859_9 | ISO_8859_9 | ISO 8859-9 encoding
ENCODING_ISO_8859_10 | ISO_8859_10 | ISO 8859-10 encoding
ENCODING_ISO_8859_11 | ISO_8859_11 | ISO 8859-11 encoding
ENCODING_ISO_8859_13 | ISO_8859_13 | ISO 8859-13 encoding
ENCODING_ISO_8859_14 | ISO_8859_14 | ISO 8859-14 encoding
ENCODING_ISO_8859_15 | ISO_8859_15 | ISO 8859-15 encoding
ENCODING_ISO_8859_16 | ISO_8859_16 | ISO 8859-16 encoding
ENCODING_UTF8 | UTF8 | UTF-8 encoding
ENCODING_UTF16_BE | UTF16_BE | UTF-16 (Big Endian) encoding
ENCODING_UTF16_LE | UTF16_LE | UTF-16 (Little Endian) encoding
ENCODING_UTF32_BE | UTF32_BE | UTF-32 (Big Endian) encoding
ENCODING_UTF32_LE | UTF32_LE | UTF-32 (Little Endian) encoding
ENCODING_EUC_JP | EUC_JP | EUC-JP encoding
ENCODING_EUC_TW | EUC_TW | EUC-TW encoding
ENCODING_EUC_KR | EUC_KR | EUC-KR encoding
ENCODING_EUC_CN | EUC_CN | EUC-CN encoding
ENCODING_SJIS | SJIS | Shift_JIS encoding
ENCODING_KOI8_R | KOI8_R | KOI8-R encoding
ENCODING_CP1251 | CP1251 | CP1251 encoding
ENCODING_BIG5 | BIG5 | Big5 encoding
ENCODING_GB18030 | GB18030 | GB18030 encoding
Option | OPTION_NONE | - | no option
OPTION_SINGLELINE | SINGLELINE | '^' -> '\A', '$' -> '\Z'
OPTION_MULTILINE | MULTILINE | '.' match with newline
OPTION_IGNORECASE | IGNORECASE | ambiguity match on
OPTION_EXTEND | EXTEND | extended pattern form
OPTION_FIND_LONGEST | FIND_LONGEST | find longest match
OPTION_FIND_NOT_EMPTY | FIND_NOT_EMPTY | ignore empty match
OPTION_NEGATE_SINGLELINE | NEGATE_SINGLELINE | clear ONIG_OPTION_SINGLELIN
OPTION_DONT_CAPTURE_GROUP | DONT_CAPTURE_GROUP | only named group captured
OPTION_CAPTURE_GROUP | CAPTURE_GROUP | named and no-named group captured

## Example

    string="test À string"
    pattern="à"

    regexoption "OPTION_NONE"
    strmatch string pattern
    messagebox result "OPTION_NONE"  ; result -> 0 (Not Match)

    regexoption "IGNORECASE"
    strmatch string pattern
    messagebox result "IGNORECASE"   ; result -> 6 (Match)

    string="Test (PaTTerN) String"
    pattern="(pattern)"

    regexoption "IGNORECASE"
    strmatch string pattern
    sprintf2 msg 'result=%d, matchstr="%s"' result matchstr
    messagebox msg "IGNORECASE"          ; result=7, matchstr="PaTTerN"

    regexoption "ASIS" "IGNORECASE"
    strmatch string pattern
    sprintf2 msg 'result=%d, matchstr="%s"' result matchstr
    messagebox msg "IGNORECASE + ASIS"   ; result=6, matchstr="(PaTTerN)"

## See also

- strmatch
- strreplace
- waitregex