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regexMatches

Searches a string for a specific pattern using a regular expression to do matching. Regular expression constructs can contain characters, character classes, and other classes and quantifiers. See http://java.sun.com for details about the Java API for Class Pattern.

This feature is only available with JVM 1.4 or later versions; this is the default version for Content Server version 7.0 and later.

Type and Usage

• "Global Functions"

• "Content Items"

Parameters

This function takes two parameters:

• The first parameter is the string to match.

• The second parameter is the expression.

Example

The following example returns FALSE, because the string does not match the expression:

<$regexMatches("abcdef","abc")$>

The following example returns TRUE because the wild cards are present. If standard wild cards such as the asterisk (*) were used instead of the dot-asterisk (.*) convention, the match would fail.

<$regexMatches("abcdef", ".*abc.*")$>

See Also

• "Operators"

• "regexReplaceAll"

• "regexReplaceFirst"

• "strEquals"

• "strIndexOf"