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Regex_Replace (string, regex, replacementex)
Result Type: Text
Definition: Returns string with every occurrence of regex replaced with replacementex. Regex is a regular expression. Replacementex is an expression whihc can contain metacharacters referring to the sequences matched in the regualr expression. This function calls through to the standard C++ regex_replace function using the default regex mode.
Examples: Regex_Replace("Quick brown fox", "a|e|i|o|u", "[$0]")
returns “Q[u][i]ck br[o]wn f[o]x”.
Availability: v8.1.7 and later.
Warning: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions". Now they have two problems —Jamie Zawinski (attributed)
If you just want a simple (non-regex) text replacement, see Replace
See Also:
Dice: Get a subcomponent of a delimited tabular string
Head: Get some elements from the start of a delimited string
Left: Get characters from the start of a string
Mid: Get characters from the middle of a string
Regex_GetMatches: Find tokens using a regular expression
Regex_Match: Test whether a string matches a regular expression
Regex_Search: Find the first match of a regular expression in a string
Regex_SearchStr: Find the first match of a regular expression in a string and return the matching string
RemoveLeading: Remove characters from the start of a string
RemoveTrailing: Remove characters from the end of a string
Replace: Replace matching text in a string with new text
Right: Get characters from the end of a string
Slice: Get a component of a delimited string
Tail: Get some elements from the end of a delimited string
Trim: Remove whitespace from beginning and end of a string