Applies the regular expression pattern to the input text and returns a list. The exact content of the list
depends on whether the regular expression uses the “g” modifier:
- With “g”, a list of all occurrences are returned (or an empty list if there are no occurrences).
- Without “g”, the first occurrence is returned as the first list element. If the regular expression contains one or more parenthesis/group expressions, those are returned as additional list elements. This can be used to extract parts of a larger context. Further occurrences are ignored.
Examples
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extractAllMatchesFromText("ene mene muhe", /m..e/g)→ [‘mene’, ‘muhe’] -
extractAllMatchesFromText("ene mene muhe", /m..e/)→ [‘mene’] -
extractAllMatchesFromText("ene mene muhe", /m(..)e/g)→ [‘mene’, ‘muhe’] -
extractAllMatchesFromText("ene mene muhe", /m(..)e/)→ [‘mene’, ‘en’] -
extractAllMatchesFromText("Weight 23 kg gross.", /(\d+)\s*([km]*g)/)→ [‘23 kg’, ‘23’, ‘kg’]