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@@ -9348,16 +9348,20 @@ object. For any other object type, it returns nil. .TP Syntax: - (regex-compile <form>) + (regex-compile <form-or-string>) .TP Description: The regex compile function takes the source code of a regular expression, -expressed as a Lisp data structure, and compiles it to a regular expression -object. +expressed as a Lisp data structure representing an abstract syntax tree, or +else a regular expression specified as a character string, and compiles it to a +regular expression object. -Suitable source code is produced by regex-parse. +If <form-or-string> is a character string, it is parsed to an +abstract syntax tree first, if by a call to (regex-parse <form-or-string>). +If the parse is successful (the result is not nil) then +it is compiled by a recursive call to regex-compile. .TP Examples: @@ -9372,6 +9376,9 @@ Examples: ;; #/a|b|c/ (regex-compile '(or (or #\ea #\eb) #\ec)) + ;; string + (regex-compile "a|b|c") + .SS Function regex-parse .TP |