ReplaceString (Regex property)

String regular expression (Regex class)

This method returns the replacement string value specified in the Regex constructor call.

Syntax

%string = regex:ReplaceString

Syntax terms

%string	The replacement string value specified in the Regex constructor call.
regex	The Regex object.

Usage notes

• If the regular expresion specified in the constructor call was Unicode, this method causes request cancellation. To test if a Regex object was created with a Unicode regular expression check the IsUnicode property.
• If no replacement string value was specified in the constructor call, a zero-length string is returned.

Examples

The following example:

b %regex is object regex %regex = new("([a-z]{3,})(\d{3,})", replace="$2$1") print %regex:replaceString end

displays:

$2$1

See also

Regex class	List of Regex methods	Regex methods syntax
Notation conventions for methods