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JensDeveloper
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4 years ago
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Map expression regex

Hi, A simple one for the people that are expert in regex. I’m still learning it. So, I have a key: notes that contains a value : “#IF:SLG-01-SL + some text here” My goal is to always get the 9 ...
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    koryknick
    4 years ago

    It’s the newline character in the string that is causing the issue. The dot notation for character matching in regex does not match newlines. After a bit of thought, we can also simplify the result by using the regex group capture syntax. Try this:

    $notes.replaceAll('\n','').replace(/.*#IF:(.{9}).*/g, '$1')
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koryknick
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4 years ago

It’s the newline character in the string that is causing the issue. The dot notation for character matching in regex does not match newlines. After a bit of thought, we can also simplify the result by using the regex group capture syntax. Try this:

$notes.replaceAll('\n','').replace(/.*#IF:(.{9}).*/g, '$1')
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    JensDeveloper
    Contributor II
    4 years ago

    Thank you it works now. I get it now. Still improving my regex 🙂