VirtualString.Match(String, StringArray) Method

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Description

Returns the number of regular expression matches between the calling String and the specified String argument. In order to return a match, the String argument must match the entire string - this can be accomplished using regular expressions. A successful pattern match always returns >= 1, where multiple matches come from user specified groupings.

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Method Signature

VirtualString.Match(	String regularExpression,
	StringArray stringArrayArgument)

Arguments

regularExpression
Description:	A regular expression that defines the pattern to match against.

stringArrayArgument
Description:	StringArray to hold the values of any groupings that match the regular expression.

Return Value

Type:

number

Returns the number of regular expression matches between the calling String and the regular expression specified by regularExpression.

Syntax

myVariable1 = myString1.ToLower.Match(myString2, myStringArray1);