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Component: RegEx

Regular expressions like in Perl.

Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
4.4 / 13.2 ✅ Yes ✅ 96% ✅ 96% ✅ Yes ✅ Yes

Item Details
RegEx.CaptureCount
Queries number of captured sub patterns.
All
4.4
RegEx.Compile
Compiles a pattern.
All
4.4
RegEx.DataDetector
Performs data detection to find details in text.
Mac/iOS
11.1
RegEx.Execute
Executes a statement.
All
4.4
RegEx.Extract
Extracts found text.
All
11.1
RegEx.FindMatches
Finds in a text all matches of a given pattern and returns list.
All
5.1
RegEx.List
Returns list of all regex IDs.
All
5.3
RegEx.Match
Matches a text against to a pattern.
All
4.4
RegEx.MatchList
Matches a list against a pattern.
All
4.4
RegEx.MinimumLength
Queries the minimum length of the text to match.
All
4.4
RegEx.NameCount
Queries number of names.
All
4.4
RegEx.NamedSubstring
Queries the named substring.
All
4.4
RegEx.Options
Queries the options to used when compiling the pattern.
All
4.4
RegEx.Pattern
Queries the pattern used to compile this regular expression.
All
4.4
RegEx.Quote
Quotes text for use in patterns.
All
7.5
RegEx.Release
Frees memory for a regular expression.
All
4.4
RegEx.ReleaseAll
Frees all regular expression objects.
All
13.2
RegEx.Replace
Replace pattern once.
All
7.5
RegEx.ReplaceAll
Replaces patterns.
All
7.5
RegEx.Results
Queries the result from execute.
All
4.4
RegEx.Size
Queries size of compiled pattern.
All
4.4
RegEx.StringNumber
Queries the index number of a name.
All
4.4
RegEx.Study
Studies the regular expression for improved execution speed.
All
4.4
RegEx.Substring
Queries a substring.
All
4.4
RegEx.SubstringList
Returns list of substrings.
All
4.4
RegEx.Version
Returns the version number of the PCRE library.
All
4.4

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