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Name: MATCH

Section: String Operators

Synopsis:

`<match STRING REGEXP [ACTION=(REPORT|DELETE|EXTRACT|STARTPOS|ENDPOS|LENGTH)]>`

Description:

Matches REGEXP against STRING and then performs ACTION. The default ACTION is `report`; when the expression matches the string `match` returns the text `true`.

Here are some examples:

      <match "foobar" ".*">                 --> "true"
      <match "foobar" "foo">                --> "true"
      <match "foobar" "foo" action=extract> --> "foo"
      <match "foobar" "oob" action=delete>  --> "far"
      <match "foobar" "oob" action=startpos>--> "1"
      <match "foobar" "oob" action=endpos>  --> "4"
      <match "foobar" "oob" action=length>  --> "3"
      <match "foobar" "[0-9]*">             --> ""

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