Name

regexpmatch — Searches a string for a POSIX Extended Regular Expression match.

Synopsis

boolean regexpmatch ( string INPUT ,
  string PATTERN );
 

Parameters

string INPUT

string PATTERN

Return

boolean

Usage

  regexpmatch ("aaabbbccc", "ab") -> true
  regexpmatch ("aaabbbccc", "^ab") -> false
  regexpmatch ("aaabbbccc", "ab+c") -> true
  regexpmatch ("aaa(bbb)ccc", "\\(.*\\)") -> true