Gambas Documentation - Regexp (gb.pcre)

Regexp (gb.pcre)

This class represents a regular expression, with which you can perform matches against various strings and retrieve submatches (those parts of the subject string that match parenthesized expressions).

Symbols

This class is creatable.

Constants
Anchored BadMagic BadOption BadUTF8 BadUTF8Offset Callout Caseless DollarEndOnly DotAll Extended Extra MatchLimit MultiLine NoAutoCapture NoMatch NoMemory NoSubstring NoUTF8Check NotBOL NotEOL NotEmpty Null UTF8 Ungreedy UnknownNode

Properties		Methods
Offset Pattern SubMatches Subject Text		Compile Exec

Example

For example, given the regular expression:

brown (\S+)

and subject string:

The quick brown fox slyly jumped over the lazy dog

your Regexp object's Text property would be:

brown fox

and its Submatches[1].Text property would be:

fox

This is just a simple example of what regular expressions can do for you when parsing textual input; they are a very powerful tool. For example, the following regular expression will extract valid email addresses for you:

(?i)\b[a-z0-9._%\-]+@[a-z0-9._%\-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b

Example

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