regexpsub

regexpsub
	YCP String Builtins

Name

regexpsub — Regex Substitution

Synopsis

`string regexpsub (`	string `INPUT` ,
	string `PATTERN` ,
	string `OUTPUT` `)`;

Parameters

string INPUT
string PATTERN
string OUTPUT

Return

string

Description

Searches a string for a POSIX Extended Regular Expression match and returns OUTPUT with the matched subexpressions substituted or nil if no match was found.

Usage

  regexpsub ("aaabbb", "(.*ab)", "s_\\1_e") -> "s_aaab_e"
  regexpsub ("aaabbb", "(.*ba)", "s_\\1_e") -> nil


regexppos		regexptokenize