On 08/24/2016 03:07 AM, cy wrote:
Then what's ctRegex in there for at all...?
Optimization.
ctRegex requires that the pattern is available as a compile time
constant. It uses that property to "generate optimized native machine code".
The plain regex function doesn't have such a requirement. It also works
with a pattern that's generated at run time, e.g. from user input. But
you can use it with a compile time constant, too. And it works in CTFE
then, but it does not "generate optimized native machine code".
