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# nemoguardrails.library.regex.rail_config

## Module Contents

### Classes

| Name                                                                                       | Description                                                             |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [`RegexDetection`](#nemoguardrails-library-regex-rail_config-RegexDetection)               | Configuration for regex pattern detection.                              |
| [`RegexDetectionOptions`](#nemoguardrails-library-regex-rail_config-RegexDetectionOptions) | Configuration options for regex pattern detection on a specific source. |

### Functions

| Name                                                                               | Description |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| [`build_config_spec`](#nemoguardrails-library-regex-rail_config-build_config_spec) | -           |

### API

```python
class nemoguardrails.library.regex.rail_config.RegexDetection()
```

**Bases:** [RailConfigBaseModel](/guardrails-python-sdk/nemoguardrails/manifests/config_schema#nemoguardrails-manifests-config_schema-RailConfigBaseModel)

Configuration for regex pattern detection.

**`input`** `RegexDetectionOptions`

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**`output`** `RegexDetectionOptions`

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**`retrieval`** `RegexDetectionOptions`

---

```python
class nemoguardrails.library.regex.rail_config.RegexDetectionOptions()
```

**Bases:** [RailConfigBaseModel](/guardrails-python-sdk/nemoguardrails/manifests/config_schema#nemoguardrails-manifests-config_schema-RailConfigBaseModel)

Configuration options for regex pattern detection on a specific source.

**`_compiled_patterns`** `List[Pattern[str]] = PrivateAttr(default_factory=list)`

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**`case_insensitive`** `bool`

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**`compiled_patterns`** `List[Pattern[str]]`

Return the pre-compiled regex patterns.

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**`patterns`** `List[str]`

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```python
nemoguardrails.library.regex.rail_config.RegexDetectionOptions.compile_patterns() -> nemoguardrails.library.regex.rail_config.RegexDetectionOptions
```

Pre-compile regex patterns at config load time.

```python
nemoguardrails.library.regex.rail_config.build_config_spec() -> nemoguardrails.manifests.config_schema.RailConfigSpec
```