- From: Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-what@farside.org.uk>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:55:06 +0100
Wrigley, Ave writes: > Incidentally - do you have any views on regex modifiers? Hmm, good question. ECMAScript defines only the RegExp object's 'ignoreCase' and 'multiline' as modifiers, from what I can see. Of those, the only one that's really relevant, I think, is ignoreCase. It certainly might be useful to be able to define whether a pattern is case-insensitive or not. We used to have a comment that defined the value for the 'multiline' ECMAScript property, though that seems not to be present in the current draft - I'm not sure why. I'm not aware of any other modifiers that would make sense in a 'pattern' attribute - can you think of any? Anyway, it certainly might be useful to set ignoreCase, and I'd guess that the default should be defined so that it is case-insensitive. I can't think of any obvious syntax for doing that, though. I must admit that I can't think of a use case where the pattern *is* case sensitive. Regards, Malcolm
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