virtual P6R::P6ERR P6R::p6IWRegex::compile ( const P6WCHAR *  pRegex, P6WREGEXMODIFIER  modifiers  )

pure virtual

Compile (and verify) a regular expression into an internal format for evaluation.

This function must be called before regExec is executed. It the input string does not match a valid regular expression then an error is returned.

Parameters

pRegex	[ in ] The wide string regular expression
modifiers	[ in ] Only P6MOD_SKIPWHITESPACE and P6MOD_NULL are valid values.

Returns

Success	P6R::eOk
Failure	P6R::eNotInitialized	A successful call to initialize was not made before this call.
	P6R::eInvalidArg	pRegex is NULL, or modifier set to an unsupported combination.
	P6R::eNoMemory	Insufficent memory to process the regex.
	P6R::eUnbalancedParens	Not every openning parenthesis has a mathing closing one. Includes all Perl types of open parenthesis (e.g., '(?=' '(?:' ).