RegEx Builder

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Typical uses of RegEx include:

Input validation String parsing Data scraping String manipulation

IsMatch

Indicates whether the specified regular expression finds a match in the specified input string.

Matches

Searches an input string for all occurrences and returns all the successful matches.

UiPath Studio contains

a RegEx builder that simplifies the creation of regular expressions.

Replace

Replaces strings that match a regular expression pattern with a specified replacement string.

What are some business scenarios in which I will use RegEx?

Retrieving pieces of text that follow a certain pattern, for example: extracting phone numbers that start with a certain digit; collecting all the street names from a bulk text, even if they don't follow a specific pattern - some of them contain "Street", others "Rd.", and so on. It would take much longer to build the same expression using the regular String methods - for example, RegEx has a predefined expression to locate all the URLs in a string.

Regular Expression (REGEX, or regexp)

a specific search pattern that can be used to easily match, locate and manage text. However, creating RegEx expressions may be challenging.


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