PregReplace

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ADDED/UPDATED IN VERSION 1.4 r5106:

This function performs a regular expression search and replace on an input string and returns the replaced string.

Syntax

string pregReplace ( string subject, string pattern, string replacement )

Required Arguments

  • subject: The input string.
  • pattern: The pattern string to search for in the input string.
  • replacement: The replacement string to replace all matches within the input string.

Returns

Returns the replaced string, or bool false otherwise.

Example

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Shared ( client and server )

Some examples: 

addCommandHandler( 'examples',
	function( )
                -- Replace doh with done
		outputDebugString( pregReplace( 'I doh this, guys.', 'doh', 'done' ) or 'not replaced' ) -- Result: I done this, guys
                -- Remove all uppercase alphabetic characters
                outputDebugString( pregReplace( 'AaaBbbZzz', '[A-Z]{1,}', '' ) or 'not replaced' ) -- Result: aabbzz
	end
)

Requirements

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See Also


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