Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: RegEx.Execute

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RegEx.Execute

Executes a statement.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Server	FileMaker Cloud	FileMaker iOS SDK
RegEx	4.4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

MBS( "RegEx.Execute"; RegExRef; Text; ExecuteOptions { ; Offset } ) More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example value

RegExRef The reference number for the regular expression returned from RegEx.Compile. $regex

Text The text to search. "Hello"

ExecuteOptions The options for executing.
Can be given as text or number. 0

Offset Optional
Optional the offset in the text to start. Can be in range from 0 to length(text). 0

Parameter	Description	Example value
RegExRef	The reference number for the regular expression returned from RegEx.Compile.	$regex
Text	The text to search.	"Hello"
ExecuteOptions	The options for executing. Can be given as text or number.	0
Offset	Optional Optional the offset in the text to start. Can be in range from 0 to length(text).	0

Result

Returns result or error.

Description

Executes a statement.
You need to compile pattern before with RegEx.Compile function.
Returns the number of results.
Use RegEx.Results function to get list of results.

Execute option	Number	Description
Anchored	16	Force pattern anchoring
Not BOL	128	Subject string is not the beginning of a line
Not EOL	256	Subject string is not the end of a line
Not Empty	1024	An empty string is not a valid match
Partial	32768	Allow partial results.
Newline CR	1048576	Set CR as the newline sequence
Newline LF	2097152	Set LF as the newline sequence
Newline CRLF	3145728	Set CRLF as the newline sequence
Newline Any	4194304	Recognize any Unicode newline sequence
Newline Any CRLF	5242880	Recognize CR, LF, and CRLF as newline sequences
BSR Any CRLF	8388608	\R matches only CR, LF, or CRLF
BSR Unicode	16777216	\R matches all Unicode line endings
No start optimize	67108864	Disable match-time start optimizations
Partial Hard	134217728	Return partial result if found before .
Not Empty At Start	268435456	An empty string at the start of the subject is not a valid match
UCP	536870912	Use Unicode properties for \d, \w, etc.

Please pass sum of the numbers to select options.

Examples

Run query and show substrings:

Set Variable [ $Pattern ; Value: "H(.*)o (.)or(..)" ]
Set Variable [ $Text ; Value: "Hello World Test" ]
# Compile
Set Variable [ $Regex ; Value: MBS("RegEx.Compile"; $Pattern; "CaseLess") ]
If [ MBS("isError") ]
Show Custom Dialog [ $Regex ]
Exit Script [ Text Result: ]
End If
Set Variable [ $ExecuteResult ; Value: MBS("RegEx.Execute"; $RegEx; $Text; "") ]
If [ MBS("IsError") = 0 ]
Show Custom Dialog [ "Captures" ; MBS("RegEx.CaptureCount"; $RegEx) ]
Show Custom Dialog [ "Substrings" ; MBS("RegEx.Substring"; $RegEx) & ¶ &
MBS("RegEx.Substring"; $RegEx; 1) & ¶ &
MBS("RegEx.Substring"; $RegEx; 2) & ¶ &
MBS("RegEx.Substring"; $RegEx; 3)]
End If
# free last
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("RegEx.Free"; $RegEx) ]

Loop and find all matches for pattern:

Set Variable [ $pattern ; Value: "(USt\-?ID:?|USt\-?IdNR\.?:?|Umsatzsteuer\-?ID:?|VAT\-?ID:?)[\s]?(DE)[\s]?([0-9]{9})" ]
Set Variable [ $ExecuteOptions ; Value: 0 ]
Set Variable [ $CompileOptions ; Value: "caseless" ]
Set Variable [ $regex ; Value: MBS("RegEx.Compile"; $Pattern; $CompileOptions) ]
Set Variable [ $offset ; Value: 0 ]

Loop
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("RegEx.Execute"; $regex; RegEx::Text; $ExecuteOptions; $offset) ]
Exit Loop If [ $r < 4 ]
Set Variable [ $s1 ; Value: MBS("RegEx.Substring"; $RegEx; 1) ]
Set Variable [ $s2 ; Value: MBS("RegEx.Substring"; $RegEx; 2) ]
Set Variable [ $s3 ; Value: MBS("RegEx.Substring"; $RegEx; 3) ]
Show Custom Dialog [ $s1 & ¶ & $s2 & ¶ & $s3 ]
Exit Loop If [ MBS("IsError") ]
Set Variable [ $offset ; $offset + Value: GetAsNumber(GetValue(MBS("RegEx.Results"; $regex); 2)) ]
End Loop
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("RegEx.Free"; $RegEx) ]

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