GRegexMatchFlags

Flags specifying match-time options.

Values

ValueMeaning
ANCHORED16

The pattern is forced to be "anchored", that is, it is constrained to match only at the first matching point in the string that is being searched. This effect can also be achieved by appropriate constructs in the pattern itself such as the "^" metacharacter.

NOTBOL128

Specifies that first character of the string is not the beginning of a line, so the circumflex metacharacter should not match before it. Setting this without G_REGEX_MULTILINE (at compile time) causes circumflex never to match. This option affects only the behaviour of the circumflex metacharacter, it does not affect "\A".

NOTEOL256

Specifies that the end of the subject string is not the end of a line, so the dollar metacharacter should not match it nor (except in multiline mode) a newline immediately before it. Setting this without G_REGEX_MULTILINE (at compile time) causes dollar never to match. This option affects only the behaviour of the dollar metacharacter, it does not affect "\Z" or "\z".

NOTEMPTY1024

An empty string is not considered to be a valid match if this option is set. If there are alternatives in the pattern, they are tried. If all the alternatives match the empty string, the entire match fails. For example, if the pattern "a?b?" is applied to a string not beginning with "a" or "b", it matches the empty string at the start of the string. With this flag set, this match is not valid, so GRegex searches further into the string for occurrences of "a" or "b".

PARTIAL32768

Turns on the partial matching feature, for more documentation on partial matching see MatchInfo.isPartialMatch.

NEWLINE_CR1048576

Overrides the newline definition set when creating a new vte.Regex, setting the '\r' character as line terminator.

NEWLINE_LF2097152

Overrides the newline definition set when creating a new vte.Regex, setting the '\n' character as line terminator.

NEWLINE_CRLF3145728

Overrides the newline definition set when creating a new vte.Regex, setting the '\r\n' characters sequence as line terminator.

NEWLINE_ANY4194304

Overrides the newline definition set when creating a new vte.Regex, any Unicode newline sequence is recognised as a newline. These are '\r', '\n' and '\rn', and the single characters U+000B LINE TABULATION, U+000C FORM FEED (FF), U+0085 NEXT LINE (NEL), U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR and U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR.

NEWLINE_ANYCRLF5242880

Overrides the newline definition set when creating a new vte.Regex; any '\r', '\n', or '\r\n' character sequence is recognized as a newline. Since: 2.34

BSR_ANYCRLF8388608

Overrides the newline definition for "\R" set when creating a new vte.Regex; only '\r', '\n', or '\r\n' character sequences are recognized as a newline by "\R". Since: 2.34

BSR_ANY16777216

Overrides the newline definition for "\R" set when creating a new vte.Regex; any Unicode newline character or character sequence are recognized as a newline by "\R". These are '\r', '\n' and '\rn', and the single characters U+000B LINE TABULATION, U+000C FORM FEED (FF), U+0085 NEXT LINE (NEL), U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR and U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR. Since: 2.34

PARTIAL_SOFT32768

An alias for G_REGEX_MATCH_PARTIAL Since: 2.34

PARTIAL_HARD134217728

Turns on the partial matching feature. In contrast to to G_REGEX_MATCH_PARTIAL_SOFT, this stops matching as soon as a partial match is found, without continuing to search for a possible complete match. See MatchInfo.isPartialMatch for more information. Since: 2.34

NOTEMPTY_ATSTART268435456

Like G_REGEX_MATCH_NOTEMPTY, but only applied to the start of the matched string. For anchored patterns this can only happen for pattern containing "\K". Since: 2.34

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2.14