tuple_regexp_matchtuple_regexp_matchTupleRegexpMatchTupleRegexpMatchtuple_regexp_match (Operator)

Name

tuple_regexp_matchtuple_regexp_matchTupleRegexpMatchTupleRegexpMatchtuple_regexp_match — Extract substrings using regular expressions.

Signature

tuple_regexp_match( : : Data, Expression : Matches)

Herror tuple_regexp_match(const char* Data, const char* Expression, char* Matches)

Herror T_tuple_regexp_match(const Htuple Data, const Htuple Expression, Htuple* Matches)

void TupleRegexpMatch(const HTuple& Data, const HTuple& Expression, HTuple* Matches)

HTuple HTuple::TupleRegexpMatch(const HTuple& Expression) const

static void HOperatorSet.TupleRegexpMatch(HTuple data, HTuple expression, out HTuple matches)

HTuple HTuple.TupleRegexpMatch(HTuple expression)

def tuple_regexp_match(data: MaybeSequence[str], expression: MaybeSequence[str]) -> Sequence[str]

def tuple_regexp_match_s(data: MaybeSequence[str], expression: MaybeSequence[str]) -> str

Description

tuple_regexp_matchtuple_regexp_matchTupleRegexpMatchTupleRegexpMatchTupleRegexpMatchtuple_regexp_match applies the regular expression in ExpressionExpressionExpressionExpressionexpressionexpression to one or more input strings in DataDataDataDatadatadata, and in each case returns the first matching substring in MatchesMatchesMatchesMatchesmatchesmatches. Normally, one output string is returned for each input string, the output string being empty if no match was found. However, if the regular expression contains capturing groups (see below), the behavior depends on the number of input strings: If there is only a single input string, the result is a tuple of all captured submatches. If there are multiple input strings, the output strings represent the matched pattern of the first capturing group.

A summary of regular expression syntax is provided here. Basically, each character in the regular expression represents a literal to match, except for the following symbols which have a special meaning (the described syntax is compatible with Perl):

^ Matches start of string $ Matches end of string (a trailing newline is allowed) . Matches any character except newline [...] Matches any character literal listed in the brackets. If the first character is a '^', this matches any character except those in the list. You can use the '-' character as in '[A-Z0-9]' to select character ranges. Other characters lose their special meaning in brackets, except '\'. Within these brackets it is possible to use the following POSIX character classes (note that the additional brackets are needed): [:alnum:] alphabetic and numeric characters [:alpha:] alphabetic characters [:blank:] space and tab [:cntrl:] control characters [:digit:] digits [:graph:] non-blank (like spaces or control characters) [:lower:] lowercase alphabetic characters [:print:] like [:graph:] but including spaces [:punct:] punctuation characters [:space:] all whitespace characters ([:blank:], newline, ...) [:upper:] uppercase alphabetic characters [:xdigit:] digits allowed in hexadecimal numbers (0-9a-fA-F). * Allows 0 or more repetitions of preceding literal or group + Allows 1 or more repetitions ? Allows 0 or 1 repetitions {n,m} Allows n to m repetitions {n} Allows exactly n repetitions The repeat quantifiers above are greedy by default, i.e., they attempt to maximize the length of the match. Appending ? attempts to find a minimal match, e.g., +? | Separates alternative matching expressions. ( ) Groups a subpattern and creates a capturing group. The substrings captured by this group will be stored separately. (?: ) Groups a subpattern without creating a capturing group (?= ) Positive lookahead (requested condition right to the match) (?! ) Negative lookahead (forbidden condition right to the match) (?<= ) Positive lookbehind (requested condition left to the match) (?<! ) Negative lookbehind (forbidden condition left to the match) \ Escapes any special symbol to treat it as a literal. Note that some host languages like HDevelop and C/C++ already use the backslash as a general escape character. In this case, '\\.'"\\.""\\.""\\.""\\.""\\." matches a literal dot while '\\\\'"\\\\""\\\\""\\\\""\\\\""\\\\" matches a literal backslash. Furthermore, there are some special codes (the capitalized version of each denoting the negation): \d,\D Matches a digit \w,\W Matches a letter, digit or underscore \s,\S Matches a white space character \b,\B Matches a word boundary

If the specified expression is syntactically incorrect, you will receive an error stating that the value of control parameter 2 is wrong. Additional details are displayed in a message box if set_system('do_low_error', 'true')set_system("do_low_error", "true")SetSystem("do_low_error", "true")SetSystem("do_low_error", "true")SetSystem("do_low_error", "true")set_system("do_low_error", "true") is set and in HDevelop's Output Console.

Furthermore, you can set some options by passing a string tuple for ExpressionExpressionExpressionExpressionexpressionexpression. In this case, the first element is used as the expression, and each additional element is treated as an option.

For general information about string operations see Tuple / String Operations.

If the input parameter DataDataDataDatadatadata is an empty tuple, the operator returns an empty tuple. If ExpressionExpressionExpressionExpressionexpressionexpression is an empty tuple, an exception is raised.

Unicode code points versus bytes

Regular expression matching operates on Unicode code points. One Unicode code point may be composed of multiple bytes in the UTF-8 string. If regular expression matching should only match on bytes, this operator can be switched to byte mode with set_system('tsp_tuple_string_operator_mode','byte')set_system("tsp_tuple_string_operator_mode","byte")SetSystem("tsp_tuple_string_operator_mode","byte")SetSystem("tsp_tuple_string_operator_mode","byte")SetSystem("tsp_tuple_string_operator_mode","byte")set_system("tsp_tuple_string_operator_mode","byte"). If 'filename_encoding'"filename_encoding""filename_encoding""filename_encoding""filename_encoding""filename_encoding" is set to 'locale'"locale""locale""locale""locale""locale" (legacy), this operator always uses the byte mode.

HDevelop In-line Operation

HDevelop provides an in-line operation for tuple_regexp_matchtuple_regexp_matchTupleRegexpMatchTupleRegexpMatchTupleRegexpMatchtuple_regexp_match, which can be used in an expression in the following syntax:

Matches := regexp_match(Data, Expression)

Execution Information

Parameters

DataDataDataDatadatadata (input_control)  string(-array) HTupleMaybeSequence[str]HTupleHtuple (string) (string) (HString) (char*)

Input strings to match.

ExpressionExpressionExpressionExpressionexpressionexpression (input_control)  string(-array) HTupleMaybeSequence[str]HTupleHtuple (string) (string) (HString) (char*)

Regular expression.

Default value: '.*' ".*" ".*" ".*" ".*" ".*"

Suggested values: '.*'".*"".*"".*"".*"".*", 'ignore_case'"ignore_case""ignore_case""ignore_case""ignore_case""ignore_case", 'multiline'"multiline""multiline""multiline""multiline""multiline", 'dot_matches_all'"dot_matches_all""dot_matches_all""dot_matches_all""dot_matches_all""dot_matches_all", 'newline_lf'"newline_lf""newline_lf""newline_lf""newline_lf""newline_lf", 'newline_crlf'"newline_crlf""newline_crlf""newline_crlf""newline_crlf""newline_crlf", 'newline_cr'"newline_cr""newline_cr""newline_cr""newline_cr""newline_cr"

MatchesMatchesMatchesMatchesmatchesmatches (output_control)  string(-array) HTupleSequence[str]HTupleHtuple (string) (string) (HString) (char*)

Found matches.

Example (HDevelop)

tuple_regexp_match ('abba', 'a*b*', Result)
* Returns 'abb'

tuple_regexp_match ('abba', 'b*a*', Result)
* Returns 'a'

tuple_regexp_match ('abba', 'b+a*', Result)
* Returns 'bba'

tuple_regexp_match ('abba', '.a', Result)
* Returns 'ba'

tuple_regexp_match ('abba', '[ab]*', Result)
* Returns 'abba'

tuple_regexp_match (['img123','img124'], 'img(.*)', Result)
* Returns ['123','124']

tuple_regexp_match ('mydir/img001.bmp', 'img(.*)\\.(.*)', Result)
* Returns ['001','bmp']

Alternatives

tuple_strstrtuple_strstrTupleStrstrTupleStrstrTupleStrstrtuple_strstr

See also

tuple_regexp_replacetuple_regexp_replaceTupleRegexpReplaceTupleRegexpReplaceTupleRegexpReplacetuple_regexp_replace, tuple_regexp_testtuple_regexp_testTupleRegexpTestTupleRegexpTestTupleRegexpTesttuple_regexp_test, tuple_regexp_selecttuple_regexp_selectTupleRegexpSelectTupleRegexpSelectTupleRegexpSelecttuple_regexp_select

References

Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE), http://www.pcre.org/

Module

Foundation