Method compile

java/com/google/re2j/RE2.java:157–159

Parses a regular expression and returns, if successful, an RE2 instance that can be used to match against text. When matching against text, the regexp returns a match that begins as early as possible in the input (leftmost), and among those it chooses the one that a backtracking search

(String expr)

   * backtracking. For POSIX leftmost-longest matching, see {@link #compilePOSIX}.
   */
  static RE2 compile(String expr) throws PatternSyntaxException {
    return compileImpl(expr, PERL, /*longest=*/ false);
  }

  /**
   * {@code compilePOSIX} is like {@link #compile} but restricts the regular expression to POSIX ERE