Just so I have this right: it looks like the preferred would not be
/(?i foo)/ but rather /(?i)foo/, yes?
Oh and to follow up on this, so in PCRE does /x((?i)bar)foo/ make the "foo"
part case-insensitive too, or not? It's not obvious to me from the page
you pointed me at, and I don't have an environment set up to definitively
test this.
Vern
It does not. So:
/x((?i)bar)foo/ is (kind-of [1]) equivalent to /x(?i:bar)foo/ and only makes the bar
part case insensitive.
/x(?i)barfoo/ would make barfoo case insensitive.
I am fine with implementing either (?[flags]) or (?[flags]:[pattern) or
both.
I hope this makes sense.
Johanna
[1]: Kind-of, because (?i:bar) is non-capturing, whereas ((?i)bar)
captures "bar" in the first capture-variable. Since we don't support
capturing at the moment that does not really matter for us - it might be
of importance in the future though.
I am fine with implementing either (?[flags]) or (?[flags]:[pattern) or
both.
I'm going to just do the latter then, as it's a simple syntax change from
what I currently have, whereas the other is more involved.
Vern