regexFind

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Description

Description:

Offsets are relative to haystack start, ignoring the provided startOffset. startOffset being <0 or >= count hayStack will trigger a script error and return empty array

Groups:

Regular Expression (Regex)

Syntax

Syntax:

haystack regexFind [pattern, startOffset]

Parameters:

haystack: String

pattern: String - Format regex pattern

offset: Number - (Optional, default: 0) The offset has to be smaller then count haystack and >= 0

Return Value:

[[match1, offset1], [match2, offset2], ... [matchN, offsetN]]

Examples

Example 1:

"wooKie boOkie cookie" regexFind [".ookie/gio"] // [["wooKie",0],["boOkie",7],["cookie",14]]

Example 2:

"wooKie boOkie cookie" regexFind [".ookie/i"] // [["wooKie",0]]

Example 3:

"wooKie boOkie cookie" regexFind [".ookie/"] // [["wooKie",0],["boOkie",7],["cookie",14]]

Example 4:

Multiline example:"co1kie2 co2kie" regexFind ["^co.kie$"] // [["co1kie",0],["co2kie",8]]

Example 5:

"I'm a cookie clicker" regexFind ["c(.*?)k(.*?)e/i"] // [["cookie",6],["oo",7],["i",10]]

Example 6:

"I'm a cookie clicker" regexFind ["c(.*?)k(.*?)e"] // [["cookie",6],["oo",7],["i",10],["clicke",13],["lic",14],["",18]]

Additional Information

See also:

regexMatch regexReplace

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[[Category:Introduced with arma3dev version 2.05]][[ Category: arma3dev: New Scripting Commands | REGEXFIND]][[ Category: arma3dev: Scripting Commands | REGEXFIND]]