### Function

# GLib Regex match_simple

since: 2.14

#### Declaration

    gboolean
    g_regex_match_simple (
      const gchar* pattern,
      const gchar* string,
      GRegexCompileFlags compile_options,
      GRegexMatchFlags match_options
    )

#### Description

Scans for a match in `string` for `pattern`.

This function is equivalent to `g_regex_match()` but it does not require to compile the pattern with g_regex_new(), avoiding some lines of code when you need just to do a match without extracting substrings, capture counts, and so on.

If this function is to be called on the same `pattern` more than once, it’s more efficient to compile the pattern once with `g_regex_new()` and then use g_regex_match().

Available since: 2.14

#### Parameters

`pattern`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  The regular expression.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

`string`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  The string to scan for matches.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

`compile_options`

  Type: `GRegexCompileFlags`

  Compile options for the regular expression, or 0

`match_options`

  Type: `GRegexMatchFlags`

  Match options, or 0

#### Return value

Type: `gboolean`

`TRUE` if the string matched, `FALSE` otherwise.