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<h1 class="refname">MongoRegex::__construct</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PECL mongo >= 0.8.1)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">MongoRegex::__construct</span> — <span class="dc-title">Creates a new regular expression</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>MongoRegex::__construct</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$regex</code></span>
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Creates a new regular expression.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term">
<em><code class="parameter">regex</code></em>
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<dd>
<p class="para">
Regular expression string of the form <em>/expr/flags</em>.
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns a new regular expression.
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<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>MongoRegex::__construct()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
<div class="example-contents"><p>This example uses a regular expression to query for all documents
with a username field starting (<em>^</em>) with an
<em>l</em> and a vowel (<em>[aeiouy]</em>),
case-insensitive (<em>/i</em>).</p></div>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$luke_search </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">MongoRegex</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"/^l[aeiouy]/i"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$cursor </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$collection</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">find</span><span style="color: #007700">(array(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"username" </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$luke_search</span><span style="color: #007700">));<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="mongoregex.tostring.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">MongoRegex::__toString()</a> - A string representation of this regular expression</span></li>
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