findPattern()

This function returns a text list with all substrings matching a given regular expression.

Syntax

findPattern(text, regex) #Output: Text list

Parser expression	Description
findPattern("Between 1900 and 2000 world population increase from 1.5 to 6.1 billions.", "\\d+(\\.\\d+)?")	This example returns the following text list: ["1900", "2000", "1.5", "6.1"]
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Parameters used in this function

Parameter	Input (data type)	Description
`text`	TEXT	Any given text.
`regex`	TEXT	A valid regular expression that grabs all substrings to be replaced.

This function returns a TEXT LIST

If you want to ignore the case, have a look at the findPatternIgnoreCase() function.

findPatternIgnoreCase("Grass is Green and Sky is Blue.", "red\|green\|blue")	findPattern("Grass is Green and Sky is Blue.", "red\|green\|blue")
`["Green", "Blue"]`	`[ ]`