Ruby Requires Chilkat v11.1.0+

Regular Expression Replace Full Matches

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Demonstrates replacing the full matches of a regular expression.

Note: Chilkat uses PCRE2. See PCRE2 Regular Expressions
Also see: PCRE2 Performance

Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

subject = "John Anders, +_+_+ Mary Robins $$$$"
pattern = "\\w+\\s+\\w+"

sb = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
sb.Append(subject)

json = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
json.put_EmitCompact(false)

timeoutMs = 2000
numMatches = sb.RegexMatch(pattern,json,timeoutMs)
if (numMatches < 0)
    #  Probably an error in the regular expression.
    #  Suggestion: Use AI to help create and/or diagnose regular expressions.
    print sb.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Examine the matches:
print json.emit() + "\n";

#  {
#    "match": [
#      {
#        "group": [
#          {
#            "cap": "John Anders",
#            "idx": 0,
#            "len": 11
#          }
#        ]
#      },
#      {
#        "group": [
#          {
#            "cap": "Mary Robins",
#            "idx": 19,
#            "len": 11
#          }
#        ]
#      }
#    ]
#  }

sbTemp = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()

i = 0
numMatches = json.SizeOfArray("match")
while i < numMatches

    json.put_I(i)

    #  The full match is always in group 0.
    sbTemp.Clear()
    json.StringOfSb("match[i].group[0].cap",sbTemp)

    #  Indicate that we wish to replace the full match with it's value converted to uppercase.
    sbTemp.ToUppercase()
    json.UpdateSb("match[i].group[0].rep",sbTemp)

    i = i + 1
end

#  The JSON now has replacement strings:
print json.emit() + "\n";

#  {
#    "match": [
#      {
#        "group": [
#          {
#            "cap": "John Anders",
#            "idx": 0,
#            "len": 11,
#            "rep": "JOHN ANDERS"
#          }
#        ]
#      },
#      {
#        "group": [
#          {
#            "cap": "Mary Robins",
#            "idx": 19,
#            "len": 11,
#            "rep": "MARY ROBINS"
#          }
#        ]
#      }
#    ]
#  }

#  Call RegexReplace to update the StringBuilder with the replacements.
success = sb.RegexReplace(json)
if (success == false)
    print sb.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "Result after doing replacements:" + "\n";
print sb.getAsString() + "\n";

#  Result after doing replacements:
#  JOHN ANDERS, +_+_+ MARY ROBINS $$$$