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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