Question

I have this heregex in coffeescript trying to catch urls:

regex = /// (
  ((f|ht){1}tp(s)?://)
  [-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~?&//=]+
  )
///

but how do set a global and ignore case flag? I’ve tried this:

    newregex = regex.compile(regex,"gi")

but that doesn’t work either

Answer 1

Coffeescript converts your heregex into a single line regex:

//Generated by CoffeeScript 1.3.1
var regex;

regex = /(((f|ht){1}tp(s)?:\/\/)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~?&\/\/=]+)/;

And javascripts regex syntax /regex/mods is shorthand for regex.compile(“regex”,”mods”), so you don’t need to compile it. You can just add the modifiers to the heregex:

regex = /// (
  ((f|ht){1}tp(s)?://)
  [-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~?&//=]+
  )
///gi