regexp literal

[DartBot]

This issue was originally filed by [email protected]

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One of the only things I like about JavaScript is RegExp literals. Any chance of that being implemented?

[lrhn]

With Dart's raw strings, the need for an explicit RegExp literal is much less than if you had to double-escape your back-slashes.

You can make a helper function, so you have to write even less:

 RegExp re(String source, [String flags]) =>
   new RegExp(source,
              caseSensitive: !flags.contains("i"),
              multiLine: flags.contains("m"));

then a RegExp may be written as only:
   var trimLinesRE = re(r"^\s+|\s+$", "m");

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[srawlins]

Duplicate of issue #289

[gbracha]

Added Duplicate label.
Marked as being merged into #289.