/*The following trailing characters can be used: * i, letters in the pattern match both upper- and lowercase letters * m, the "start of line" and "end of line" constructs match immediately following or immediately before any newline in the string, respectively, as well as at the very start and end. * s, a dot metacharater . in the pattern matches all characters, including newlines. Without it, newlines are excluded. * x, whitespace data characters in the pattern are totally ignored except when escaped or inside a character class. */ bool is_valid_email(string email) { var status = true; stdout.puts(@"$email is "); if(! /^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i.match(email)) { stdout.puts("not "); status = false; } stdout.puts("valid email address.\n"); return status; } void main () { is_valid_email("backbone@backbone.ws"); is_valid_email("abrakadabra@@@lksdfj"); var r = /(_name_|_NAME_|_Name_)/; var s = r.replace("My name is _NAME_", -1, 0, "Kolan"); stdout.puts(@"$s\n"); }