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match_simple


Description:

public static bool match_simple (string pattern, string str, RegexCompileFlags compile_options = 0, RegexMatchFlags match_options = 0)

Scans for a match in string for pattern.

This function is equivalent to g_regex_match() but it does not require to compile the pattern with g_regex_new(), avoiding some lines of code when you need just to do a match without extracting substrings, capture counts, and so on.

If this function is to be called on the same pattern more than once, it's more efficient to compile the pattern once with g_regex_new() and then use g_regex_match().

Parameters:

pattern the regular expression
string the string to scan for matches
compile_options compile options for the regular expression, or 0
match_options match options, or 0

Returns:

TRUE if the string matched, FALSE otherwise