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functx:get-matches

Return the matching regions of a string

Description

The functx:get-matches function splits a string into parts that match and returns each of those parts in a sequence.

The regular expression cannot match a zero-length string, or an error is raised. Overlapping matches do not appear separately as matches.

Arguments and Return Type

XQuery Function Declaration

declare namespace functx = "http://www.functx.com";
declare function functx:get-matches
  ( $string as xs:string? ,
    $regex as xs:string )  as xs:string* {

   functx:get-matches-and-non-matches($string,$regex)/
     string(self::match)
 } ;

Examples

functx:get-matches(
   'abc123def', '\d+')

"123"

functx:get-matches(
   'abc123def', '\d')

("1","2","3")

functx:get-matches(
   'abc123def', '[a-z]{2}')

("ab","de")

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