# Class Regexp.PCRE._pcre

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Method create

  `Regexp.PCRE._pcre 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