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RegEx.Match
Matches a text against to a pattern.
| Component | Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | Server | iOS SDK |
| RegEx | 4.4 | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
MBS( "RegEx.Match"; Pattern; Text; CompilerOptions; ExecuteOptions ) More
Parameters
| Parameter | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | The pattern to use. | "H(.*)" |
| Text | The text to search. | "Hello" |
| CompilerOptions | A number for the options to use. e.g. 1 for case insensitive or 512 for ungreedy. Can be given as text or number. |
512+1 |
| ExecuteOptions | The options for executing. Can be given as text or number. |
0 |
Result
Returns 0, 1 or error.
Description
Matches a text against to a pattern.This compiles the pattern, executes it and looks if we have a match or not.
Returns 1 if matches and 0 if not.
| Option | Number | Description |
| Caseless | 1 | Do caseless matching |
| CaseSensitive | 0 | Do case sensitive matching |
| Multiline | 2 | ^ and $ match newlines within data |
| SingleLine | 0 | ^ and $ do not match newlines within data |
| DotAll | 4 | . matches anything including NL |
| Extended | 8 | Ignore white space and # comments |
| Anchored | 16 | Force pattern anchoring |
| DollarEndOnly | 32 | $ not to match newline at end |
| NotBOL | 128 | Subject string is not the beginning of a line |
| NotEOL | 256 | Subject string is not the end of a line |
| Ungreedy | 512 | Invert greediness of quantifiers |
| Greedy | 0 | Be greedy. |
| NotEmpty | 1024 | An empty string is not a valid match |
| Empty | 0 | An empty string is a valid match |
| AutoCapture | 0 | Enable numbered capturing parentheses |
| NoAutoCapture | 4096 | Disable numbered capturing parentheses (named ones available) |
| AutoCallout | 16384 | Compile automatic callouts |
| NoAutoCallout | 0 | Don’t compile automatic callouts |
| Partial | 32768 | Allow partial results. |
| FirstLine | 262144 | Force matching to be before newline |
| DupNames | 524288 | Allow duplicate names for subpatterns |
| NewlineCR | 1048576 | Set CR as the newline sequence |
| NewlineLF | 2097152 | Set LF as the newline sequence |
| NewlineCRLF | 3145728 | Set CRLF as the newline sequence |
| NewlineAny | 4194304 | Recognize any Unicode newline sequence |
| NewlineAnyCRLF | 5242880 | Recognize CR, LF, and CRLF as newline sequences |
| BSRAnyCRLF | 8388608 | \R matches only CR, LF, or CRLF |
| BSRUnicode | 16777216 | \R matches all Unicode line endings |
| JavaScriptCompatible | 33554432 | JavaScript compatibility |
| NoStartOptimize | 67108864 | Disable match-time start optimizations |
| PartialHard | 134217728 | Return partial result if found before . |
| NotEmptyAtStart | 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
Match Hello with pattern:
MBS( "RegEx.Match"; "H(.*)o"; "Hello")
Match case less:
MBS( "RegEx.Match"; "H(.*)o"; "hello"; "caseless")
Match multiline:
MBS( "RegEx.Match"; "^Hello$"; "Test¶Hello¶World"; "MultiLine NewLineAny CaseLess"; "NewLineAny" )
See also
Example Databases
Blog Entries
- MBS Plugin Advent calendar: 19 - RegEx
- Regular Expressions in FileMaker
- MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 5.3pr5
This function checks for a license.
Created 26th October 2014, last changed 17th March 2023
