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Text.find_all

find_allpatterncase_sensitivity

Group: Selections
Aliases: matches

Documentation​

Finds all the matches of the regular expression pattern in self, returning a Vector. If not found, will be an empty Vector. For details on Enso's Regex syntax, see the Help Documentation.

Arguments​

  • pattern: The pattern to match self against.
  • case_sensitivity: Specifies if the text values should be compared case sensitively.

Examples​

Find the substring matching the regex.​

      example_find_all =
           ## This matches `aabbbbc` @ character 0 and `abc` @ character 11
          "aabbbbccccaabcaaaa".find_all "a[ab]+c"
      example_find_all_insensitive =
           ## This matches `aABbbbc` @ character 0 and `aBC` @ character 11
          "aABbbbccccaaBCaaaa".find_all "a[ab]+c" Case_Sensitivity.Insensitive

Errors​

  • If an empty regex is used, find throws an Illegal_Argument error.
  • If a non-default locale is used, find throws an Illegal_Argument error.