Compare content against regex pattern

Compares and determines if the content matches a specific regular expression, which is a sequence of characters that specifies a search pattern.

Common use cases

• Data Manipulation
• Data Management

Category

• Text

Inputs (what you have)

NAME	DESCRIPTION	TYPE	REQUIRED	EXAMPLE
Content	Enter the text To be compared against the regular expression	Text	Yes	babble
Regular expression	Enter the regular expressionSee how it works in the section below.	Text	Yes	b[aeiou]bble

Note: The value of inputs can either be a set value in the configuration of the Wrk Action within the Wrkflow, or a variable from the Data library. These variables in the Data library are the outputs of previous Wrk Actions in the Wrkflow.

Outputs (what you get)

• N/A

Outcomes

NAME	DESCRIPTION
Yes	This status is selected if the text compared matches the regular expression.
No	This status is selected if the text compared does not match the regular expression.

Requirements

• N/A

How it works

Build a regular expression using any of the following options. If the text to be compared matches the regular expression then status will be yes, otherwise, the status will be no.

• **Character classes

  **

  • . any character except newline
  • \w\d\s word, digit, whitespace
  • \W\D\S not word, digit, whitespace
  • [abc] any of a, b, or c
  • [^abc] not a, b, or c
  • [a-g] character between a & g

• **Anchors

  **

  • ^abc$ start / end of the string
  • \b\B word, not-word boundary
  • ##**Escaped characters**
  • \.\*\\ escaped special characters
  • \t\n\r tab, linefeed, carriage return

• **Groups & Lookaround

  **

  • (abc) capture group
  • \1 backreference to group #1
  • (?:abc) non-capturing group
  • (?=abc) positive lookahead
  • (?!abc) negative lookahead

• **Quantifiers & Alternation

  **

  • a*a+a? 0 or more, 1 or more, 0 or 1
  • a{5}a{2,} exactly five, two or more
  • a{1,3} between one & three
  • a+?a{2,}? match as few as possible
  • ab|cd match ab or cd