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I'm trying to use regexmatches and I want to have pull groups pulled from the result. I'm aware that you can put these in groupings and with regexreplace you can replace values from the result but I'm wondering how can I just get the results from this list into something I can grab? For example, I'm trying:

$name = "abc-123";
$search = regexmatches($name, "^([a-z]+)(-)?([0-9]+)", ",");

Can I use something like
msg gettoken($search, "1");
to get a result?

that would be a boon to have!

SammaySarkar wrote:that would be a boon to have!

Figured out a way. However, I was hoping for something cleaner. It will match but unfortunately you need to account for the whole string to match because it just replaces contents you find. Unmatched content is left intact:

$name = "abc-123";
$results = regexreplace($name, "^[\[\s]*([a-z]+)[-]?([0-9]+)", "$1|$2");
msg gettoken($results, "1", "|");

That doesn't use regexmatches (which you've asked for)

What are you trying to achieve here? is enough.

highend wrote:That doesn't use regexmatches (which you've asked for)

What are you trying to achieve here?

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[\[\s]*

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\s*

is enough.

Sorry I use a brackets and space in my names ex. abc-123 to [ abc-123 ] to try and make them cleaner. I didn't specify it in my comment because I was trying to keep it simple. Then I was removing it from my example and forgot the beginning.