Introduction

The RegEx module uses PCRE to provide integrated support for Regular Expressions.

Regular expressions allow you to define a pattern for use with Find/Replace, rather than a normal matching string. This makes it infinitely more powerful for complicated matching.

Example

Replace all numbers occurring in the following text with the string "!FLOAT!"

floats are 4.533, -10.232, 1446.2003 and even 100 If it wasn't enough 5 out of 10 applications said their users preferred them. That's 0.50 !

With the RegEx module you essentially only need this :

Local regex:TRegEx = TRegEx.Create("[-+]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]+")

Local s:String = regex.ReplaceAll(originalString, "!FLOAT!")

which will result in the string

floats are !FLOAT!, !FLOAT!, !FLOAT! and even !FLOAT! If it wasn't enough !FLOAT! out of !FLOAT! applications said their users preferred them. That's !FLOAT! !

You can follow the module progress via the RegExModuleChangeLog.

Building

See HowToInstallModules to help you get started.