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[%CFEngine_function_prototype(regex, string)%]
Description: Returns whether the [anchored][anchored] regular expression
regex matches the string.
[%CFEngine_function_attributes(regex, string)%]
Example:
[%CFEngine_include_snippet(regcmp.cf, #+begin_src cfengine3, .*end_src)%]
Output:
[%CFEngine_include_snippet(regcmp.cf, #+begin_src\s+example_output\s*, .*end_src)%]
If the string contains multiple lines, then it is necessary to code these
explicitly, as regular expressions do not normally match the end of line
as a regular character (they only match end of string). You can do this
using either standard regular expression syntax or using the additional
features of PCRE (where (?ms) changes the way that ., ^ and $ behave), e.g.
See also: regline(), strcmp()