REPLACE PATTERNS OF TEXT

Performs regex-based find-and-replace on a source text string. Supply a regular-expression search pattern and a replacement string to transform the input text; the substituted result is returned as a new text value.

When to use

Classification: process.

Tagged: find_replace, pattern, regex, replace, string, text, transform.

Inputs

Label ID Type Default Required Description
Source Text text text   The source text to be searched and modified; accepts any plain-text string or multi-line block.
Pattern search string   Regular-expression pattern to locate within the source text (e.g. ‘\bfoo\b’ to match the whole word ‘foo’); leave empty to skip substitution.
Replace replace string   Replacement string to substitute wherever the search pattern matches; may include regex back-references (e.g. ‘$1’); leave empty to delete matched substrings.

Outputs

Label ID Type Description
text_replace_output_1 text_replace_output_1 text The resulting text after all regex pattern matches in the source have been replaced with the supplied replacement string.

Disciplines

  • data.dataset.transform

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