RegExReplace
The RegExReplace() function replaces all matches for Pattern in SourceText, and replaces them with the ReplaceText value.
All regex functions use a pattern to check for matches in the input text.
For a more complete explanation and special / allowed characters you can visit this WEM Forum post. Here you find a cheat-sheet and a few helpful examples.
This function is NOT SQL compatible. For more information about SQL compatibility, see our documentation.
Returns SourceText with the matching patterns replaced by the replace-text value.
Returns SourceText if no matches are found or the pattern is faulty.
Syntax
RegExReplace(pattern, sourcetext, replacetext)
RegExReplace("\\d{3}", "Triple (3) numbers like 123 are replaced by zeroes. Some but not all of these 5-niners (99999) become zeroes, and a phonenumber like 020-2402120?", "000")
=> "Triple (3) numbers like 000 are replaced by zeroes. Some but not all of these 5-niners (00099) become zeroes, and a phonenumber like 000-0000000?"
Parameters
pattern
text
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The pattern you want to replace.
sourcetext
text
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The text you want to check for patterns to replace.
replacetext
text
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The text you want to replace the pattern with.
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