Regular Expressions (RegExp / Regex)
What are regular expressions and how are they used?
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Created: 04.05.2004
Machine translated
Updated: 07.08.2019
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Title supplemented with the terms RegExp and Regex.
The OCL operators regExpMatch and replaceRegex use regular expressions.
On the internet you can find a lot of information about regular expressions. Here as an example the article Regular Expression in Wikipedia. A good implementation can also be found at the following link: http://www.regular-expressions.info/
In Vertec, the basic elements (., *, +, [, ], ^, $, –, \) can be used:
| . | Any single character. Example: h.t matches hat, hit, hot and hut. |
| [ ] | Any one of the characters in the brackets, or any of a range of characters separated by a hyphen (-). Examples: h[aeiou][a-z] matches hat, hip, hit, hop, and hut; x[0-9] matches x0, x1, ..., x9. |
| [^] | Any characters except for those after the caret “^”. Example: h[^u]t matches hat, hit, and hot, but not hut. |
| ^ | The start of a line. |
| $ | The end of a line (not the line break characters). Use this for restricting matches to characters at the end of a line. Example: end$ only matches “end” when it’s the last word on a line, and ^end only matches “end” when it’s the first word on a line. |
| * | Matches zero or more of the preceding characters or expressions. Example: ho matches hp, hop and hoop. |
| + | Matches one or more of the preceding characters or expressions. Example: ho+p matches hop, and hoop, but not hp. |
| \ | “Escapes” the special meaning of the above expressions, so that they can be matched as literal characters. Hence, to match a literal “\,” you must use “\\”. |
Collection Of Examples
Checks whether a phone number consists only of digits. Spaces and '-' are allowed.
standardtelefon.regExpMatch('^[0-9 -]*$') |
Represents an addresstext in a row, the rows are separated by commas:
oclastype(Adresseintrag).adresstext.replaceregex('\r\n',', ').replaceregex('\n',', ') |
Abbreviates the first name of the user (first name and last name are in the same field):
name.replaceregex('.*\s+', name.substring(0,0)+'. ')Result: Hans Muster -> H. Muster |
Search in all addresses for all Mayers, Mejers, Maiers, Meyers etc.:
adresseintrag->select(name->regExpMatch('M[ae][ijy]er')) |
Displays in a column on a list of companies from the company name only what is in brackets:
if name.sqllike ('%(%') then name.replaceRegex('^.*\(','').replaceregex('\)$','') else '' endifResult: Test company (additional information) -> Additional information |
Displays in a column on a list of companies from the company name only what is not in brackets:
name.replaceregex('\(.*\)$','')Result: Test company (additional information) -> Test company |