Description

The REGEXP function is a powerful function that allows pattern matching using UNIX regular expressions. REGEXP is not supported on Windows. It takes the general form:

REGEXP(variable, expression)

Where: 

• variable can be any type of jBASE BASIC variable and is the variable upon which pattern matching will be performed.
• expression should evaluate to a standard UNIX regular expression as defined in the UNIX documentation.

The function returns a numeric integer value being the first character in variable that failed to match the specified regular expression. If a match is not found or the regular expression was invalid then the function returns 0.

An example of use would be: 

String = "jBASE Software Inc."
CRT REGEXP(String, "S[^t]*")

to display the value 4, being the position of the character "t" in the word Software

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