The regular expression must follow the regex crate rules, and should be a string.
The idea of keeping them separate is because we cannot use the Elixir standard regex, and we need to use strings for both literal and regex versions. To make the difference explicit, we are using the re_ prefix for functions that accept regexes as strings.
The regular expression must follow the
regexcrate rules, and should be a string.The idea of keeping them separate is because we cannot use the Elixir standard regex, and we need to use strings for both literal and regex versions. To make the difference explicit, we are using the
re_prefix for functions that accept regexes as strings.This is related to https://github.com/elixir-explorer/explorer/issues/353