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

Caution

When declaring a pattern string in quotes, the backslash character should be doubled up. e.g. "\(" will match a single bracket. This also applies to the replacement string.

Caution

Multiline flag does not work correctly

Syntax

 pregReplace ( )

Code Examples

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


        -- Use simple backreference in replacement string
        outputDebugString( pregReplace( "I love Lua!", "(Lua)", "Moon\\1" ) ) -- Result: I love MoonLua!


        -- Remove repeated characters
        outputDebugString( pregReplace( "Keeeeeep this shooooooort.", "((.)\\2{2})\\2+", "\\1" ) ) -- Result: Keeep this shooort.
    end
)

See Also

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