ee.String.match
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Matches a string against a regular expression. Returns a list of matching strings.
Usage | Returns | String.match(regex, flags) | List |
Argument | Type | Details | this: input | String | The string in which to search. |
regex | String | The regular expression to match. |
flags | String, default: "" | A string specifying a combination of regular expression flags, specifically one or more of: 'g' (global match) or 'i' (ignore case) |
Examples
Code Editor (JavaScript)
var s = ee.String('ABCabc123');
print(s.match('')); // ""
print(s.match('ab', 'g')); // ab
print(s.match('ab', 'i')); // AB
print(s.match('AB', 'ig')); // ["AB","ab"]
print(s.match('[a-z]+[0-9]+')); // "abc123"
print(s.match('\\d{2}')); // "12"
// Use [^] to match any character except a digit.
print(s.match('abc[^0-9]', 'i')); // ["ABCa"]
Python setup
See the
Python Environment page for information on the Python API and using
geemap
for interactive development.
import ee
import geemap.core as geemap
Colab (Python)
s = ee.String('ABCabc123')
print(s.match('').getInfo()) # ""
print(s.match('ab', 'g').getInfo()) # ab
print(s.match('ab', 'i').getInfo()) # AB
print(s.match('AB', 'ig').getInfo()) # ['AB','ab']
print(s.match('[a-z]+[0-9]+').getInfo()) # 'abc123'
print(s.match('\\d{2}').getInfo()) # '12'
# Use [^] to match any character except a digit.
print(s.match('abc[^0-9]', 'i').getInfo()) # ['ABCa']
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Last updated 2023-10-06 UTC.
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