| Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 700 at 2013-06-08.

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Regexp.PCRE._pcre

# Method Regexp.PCRE._pcre()->create()

Method create

  `void Regexp.PCRE._pcre(string pattern, void|int options, void|object table)`

Description

  The option bits are:

  `OPTION.ANCHORED` | Force pattern anchoring
  `OPTION.CASELESS` | Do caseless matching
  `OPTION.DOLLAR_ENDONLY` | $ not to match newline at end
  `OPTION.DOTALL` | . matches anything including NL
  `OPTION.EXTENDED` | Ignore whitespace and # comments
  `OPTION.EXTRA` | PCRE extra features (not much use currently)
  `OPTION.MULTILINE` | ^ and $ match newlines within data
  `OPTION.NO_AUTO_CAPTURE` | Disable numbered capturing parentheses (named ones available)
  `OPTION.UNGREEDY` | Invert greediness of quantifiers
  `OPTION.UTF8` | Run in UTF-8 mode