make-regexp-positioner

Creates a function that finds the index of a regexp in a string.

Deprecated

Use regexp-position instead.

Exported from

Arguments

argAn instance of <string>.
byte-characters-only:An instance of <object>.  The default is #f.
need-marks:An instance of <object>.  The default is #t.
maximum-compile:An instance of <object>.  The default is #f.
case-sensitive:An instance of <object>.  The default is #f.

Values

valAn instance of <function>.
Find the position of a regular expression inside a string.
Parsing a regexp is not cheap, so we cache the parsed regexps and only parse a string if we haven’t seen it before.
The class of sequences with elements that are characters.
The class of all Dylan objects.
The class of objects that can be applied to arguments.