Function regexp

regexp aRegexp aString

Finds all matches of a regular expression in a string.

Parameters:

aRegexp - A regular expression object or a string representing a regular expression.

aString - The string object against which the regular expression will be matched.

Returns:

A list where each element represents a match.

Each match in the returned list is represented as a list of strings. The first element is the matched portion. The following elements are the portions matching the parenthesized sets in the regular expression pattern.

• Example (positive match) - 

  regexp "label([0-9]): (.*)" "label5: test message"
  

  evaluates to a list within one list that can be expressed (in Tea) as:

  ( ( "label5: test message" "5" "test message" ) )
  

• Example (negative match) - 

  regexp "label([0-9]): (.*)" "label: test message"
  

  evaluates to an empty list.