Regular Expressions
Functions for using regular expressions to manipulate strings.
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Adds function to use regular expressions with strings, such as
- Find the position of pattern in a string
- Find a pattern in a string
- Split a string by a pattern
- Check if a string matches a pattern
- Replace patterns in a string with another string
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Actions
Find all matches for a regex pattern
Builds an array containing all matches for a regex pattern.
Find all matches with their groups for a regex pattern
Builds an array containing for each regex pattern match an array with the match followed by its regex groups.
Find first match with groups for a regex pattern
Builds an array containing the first match for a regex pattern followed by the regex groups.
Split a string into an array
Split a string by each part of it that matches a regex pattern and stores each part into an array.
Conditions
String matches regex pattern
Checks if a string matches a regex pattern.
Expressions
| Expression | Description | |
|---|---|---|
RegEx::Find() |
Finds a regex pattern in a string, and returns the index of the position of the match, or -1 if it doesn't match the pattern. | |
RegEx::Replace() |
Replaces a part of a string that matches a regex pattern with another string. |
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