PerCederberg.Grammatica.Runtime
Class GrammaticaRE

System.Object
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internal class GrammaticaRE

extends REHandler

The Grammatica built-in regular expression handler.

GrammaticaRE

public GrammaticaRE( string regex, bool ignoreCase );

Creates a new Grammatica regular expression handler.

Parameters:

regex - the regular expression text

ignoreCase - the character case ignore flag

Throws:

Exception - if the regular expression contained invalid syntax

Match

public override int Match( ReaderBuffer buffer );

Checks if the start of the input stream matches this regular expression.

Parameters:

buffer - the input buffer to check

Returns:

the longest match found, or zero (0) if no match was found

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurred