Replacement

Syntax

["Regexp", "Flags", "newSubstr/replacerFunction"], [...]

Parameters

• Regexp A regular expression object.

• Flags Regular expressions have optional flags that allow for functionality like global searching and case-insensitive searching.

Flag	Description
d	Generate indices for substring matches
g	Find all matches rather than stopping after the first match
i	If u flag is also enabled, use Unicode case folding
m	Treat beginning and end characters (^ and $) as working over multiple lines. In other words, match the beginning or end of each line (delimited by or ), not only the very beginning or end of the whole input string
s	Allows . to match newlines
u	Treat pattern as a sequence of Unicode code points

• newSubstr (replacement) The String that replaces the substring specified by the specified regexp or substr parameter

• replacerFunction (replacement) A function to be invoked to create the new substring to be used to replace the matches to the given regexp or substr

Return Value

A new string, with all matches of a pattern replaced by a replacement

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Examples

#Replace JP Char:
["ロキ", "g", "Loki"], ["オーディン", "g", "Odin"], ["フェンリル", "g", "Fenrir"]

#Remove Vars & Tags:
["({[^}]*})|(<[^>]*>)|({[^}]*})|(\\[[^\\]]*])", "gm", ""]

#Bubstitution with BackReference:
["^(.*)$", "g", "Hi, $1"]
["(\\w+)\\s+\\[(\\d+)]", "g", "$1[$2]"]

RegExp	Source Text	Result
[": ?(\d+)", "gm", ""]	Character : Hello. : 10 : 09 : 10 : 30	Character : Hello.
["([^]*):", "gm", ""]	Day 29 - Monday: Morning: Character: Hello.	Hello.
[": ([^]*)", "gm", ""]	Hello.: -AAA: +BBB: 123	Hello.
["Day((.*?):){2}", "gm", ""]	Day 29 - Monday: Morning: Character: Hello.	Character: Hello.
["(\b\S.+\b)(?=.*\1\b)", "gms", ""]	Monday Monday Monday	Monday