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Ignore differences in Unicode encodings

Check to ignore differences.

Note: This may improve performance, but be sure you data only contains US ASCII characters.

Enables case-insensitive matching

By default, case-insensitive matching assumes that only characters in the US-ASCII charset are being matched. Unicode-aware case-insensitive matching can be enabled by specifying the 'Unicode-aware case...' flag in conjunction with this flag.

Note: You can also enable this via the embedded flag expression (?i).

Permit whitespace and and comments in pattern

When enabled, the step will ignore whitespace and embedded comments starting with # through the end of the line.
In this mode, you must use the \s token to match whitespace.

Note: Comments mode can also be enabled via the embedded flag expression (?x).

Enable dotall mode

When enabled, the expression '.' matches any character including the line terminator. By default, this expression does not match the line terminators.

Note: Dotall mode can also be enabled via the flag expression (?s).

Enable multiline mode

When enabled, the expressions '^' and '$' match just after or just before, respectively, a line terminator or the end of the input sequence. By default, these expressions only match at the beginning and the end of the entire input sequence.

Note: Multiline mode can also be enabled via the flag expression (?m)

Enable Unicode-aware case folding

When enabled, in conjunction with the Case-insensitive flag, case-insensitive matching is done in a manner consistent with the Unicode standard. By default, case-insensitive matching assumes that only characters in the US-ASCII charset are being matched.

Note: Unicode-aware case folding can also be enabled via the embedded flag expression (?u).

Enables Unix lines mode

When enabled, only the line terminator is recognized in the behavior of '.', '^', and '$'.

Note: Unix lines mode can also be enabled via the embedded flag mode (?d).