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Per Amundsen, 01/16/2019 09:16 PM


Added in 1.9.0

$regml([name], N)

Returns the Nth regular expression match from $regex, $regsub, $regsubex or from an event.

Same as $regbr.

Parameters

[name] - A named regular expression, if not defined result from the last regular expression is returned. (optional)
N - If N = 0, number of matches, otherwise the Nth match.

Properties

.pos - Returns the match position in the text.
.group - Returns the group position (includes empty groups).

Example

; Search the text for the pattern '(hello)' and print the result.
//echo -ag Number of matches: $regex(Hello World, /(Hello)/) match 1 is: $regml(1)

; Prefix an event with '$' allows the use of a regular expression in the 'matchtext' field which will fill $regml with the result.
on $*:TEXT:/Hello/g:*:echo -ag found $regml(0) matches, first match was $regml(1)

Updated by Per Amundsen about 5 years ago · 7 revisions

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