Specifying regex options

One limitation of using built-in support for regular expressions is that you can't use non-standard regex options like regex compiled.

Actually there is a way to use the ignore case option. Add a (?i) to the beginnning of your regex pattern like so:

But in other cases you may want to just use the .NET Regex class explicitly:

Regex Replace method

This would be an equivalent to using perl's switch/replace statement: s/foo/bar/g.

regex primitive type

Also note, Boo has a built-in primitive type called "regex" (lowercase) that means the same thing as the .NET Regex class. So you can do for example:

See also:

• Using Regular Expressions in .NET
• .NET Framework Regular Expressions
• The Regular Expression Library has hundreds of user-contributed regex samples.
• txt2regex - command line to assist with constructing regular expressions