Vala.Text.Regex – Valacore – Vala Binding Reference

Description:

public class Regex : Object

Static utility methods for regular expressions.

This helper provides lightweight one-shot regex operations without manually managing GLib.Regex instances.

Example:

    bool ok = Regex.matches ("abc-123", "^[a-z]+-[0-9]+$");
    string replaced = Regex.replaceAll ("a,b,c", ",", "|");

Namespace: Vala.Text

Package: Valacore

Content:

Static methods:

public static bool matches (string s, string pattern)

Returns true when the pattern matches the input string.

public static string replaceAll (string s, string pattern, string repl)

Replaces all regex matches with replacement text.

public static string[] split (string s, string pattern)

Splits a string by a regex pattern.

Creation methods:

public Regex ()

Inherited Members:

All known members inherited from class GLib.Object

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