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[Titan]

This follows on from John B.'s topic titled "Could Loop, Filepattern use regular expressions?."
We should have a new regex equality operator for string matching without calling functions, e.g.

[Tuncay]

I voted for yes, we should have.

Without calling the regexmatch function, that could speed up. Return should be just 0 or 1, like any other equality.

edit: How about ErrorLevel to use as UnquotedOutputVar?

[Titan]

[engunneer]

I would say it should still return FoundPos, since that matches some of the other functions in AHK. I don't think it will be bad for performance. (Kind of like WinExist actually returns a handle)
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[majkinetor]

Must have. Thumbs up.
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[Tuncay]

If ErrorLevel would be used, then returning FoundPos is not needed that much. But, without ErrorLevel, I am also returning for FoundPos.

[tic]

I completely agree. hadnt thought of this, but now you mention it, it seems like a great idea.

btw....

I think RegexReplace also needs to have a variable for foundpos badly! its so annoying using regexmatch as well just to tell regexreplace where to search from!

[AHKnow]

Great request, however Perl is probably not the best example of a language to follow. Looking at Perl for too long can cause you to go insane.

[majkinetor]

LOL
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[Titan]

I never liked perl much anyway, but Ecmascript (javascript) also supports regex as objects.
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