A regular expression pattern.

Regular expressions are Patterns, and can as such be used to match strings or parts of strings.

Dart regular expressions have the same syntax and semantics as JavaScript regular expressions. See ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-15.10 for the specification of JavaScript regular expressions.

firstMatch is the main implementation method that applies a regular expression to a string and returns the first Match. All other methods in RegExp can build on it.

Use allMatches to look for all matches of a regular expression in a string.

The following example finds all matches of a regular expression in a string.

RegExp exp = new RegExp(r"(\w+)");
String str = "Parse my string";
Iterable<Match> matches = exp.allMatches(str);

Note the use of a raw string (a string prefixed with r) in the example above. Use a raw string to treat each character in a string as a literal character.

Implements

Constructors

RegExp(String source, { bool multiLine: false, bool caseSensitive: true })

Constructs a regular expression.

factory

Properties

isCaseSensitive bool

Whether this regular expression is case sensitive.

read-only
isMultiLine bool

Whether this regular expression matches multiple lines.

read-only
pattern String

The source regular expression string used to create this RegExp.

read-only
hashCode int

The hash code for this object.

read-only, inherited
runtimeType Type

A representation of the runtime type of the object.

read-only, inherited

Operators

operator ==(other) bool

The equality operator.

inherited

Methods

allMatches(String input, [ int start = 0 ]) Iterable<Match>

Returns an iterable of the matches of the regular expression on input.

firstMatch(String input) Match

Searches for the first match of the regular expression in the string input. Returns null if there is no match.

hasMatch(String input) bool

Returns whether the regular expression has a match in the string input.

stringMatch(String input) String

Returns the first substring match of this regular expression in input.

matchAsPrefix(String string, [ int start = 0 ]) Match

Match this pattern against the start of string.

inherited
noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) → dynamic

Invoked when a non-existent method or property is accessed.

inherited
toString() String

Returns a string representation of this object.

inherited