replaceAll

Function: replaceAll()

Replace all occurrences of a pattern with a replacement string.

Syntax

replaceAll(listToCheck, findPattern, replacementString)

ArgumentTypeDescription
listToCheckArrayList of strings to evaluate
findPatternRegular ExpressionPattern to be matched in listToCheck
replacementStringStringString to replace matching pattern in list

Examples

replaceAll(in.fileName, "[0-9]{8}", "")

replaceAll() removes all strings of 8 digits from file names contained in the attribute in.fileName.

If in.fileName = "20060712file-proc20070103-1263", this returns "file-proc-1263".

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