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regexReplaceFirst

Searches a string for a specific pattern using a regular expression to do matching and replaces the first instance with a replacement string. 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 three parameters:

• The first parameter is the original string.

• The second parameter is the string to match.

• The third parameter is the replacement string.

Example

The following example returns xyzdef abcdef:

<$regexReplaceFirst("abcdef abcdef","abc","xyz")$>

See Also

• "Operators"

• "regexMatches"

• "regexReplaceAll"

• "strEquals"

• "strIndexOf"

• "strSubstring"