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extract

Extracts a match for a regular expression from a string.

Syntax

extract(regex, capture_group, source)

Parameters

Prop

Type

Given a dynamic field

This parameter is string-only. In permissive mode — the default — almost every field arrives as a dynamic, so passing one works because Berserk injects asstring: extract-or-null, the value when it really is a string and null otherwise, so the call yields null (a predicate yields false). A property bag or array is therefore not matched, and tostring() is never applied implicitly — use it explicitly to match a bag's JSON text, keys included. Strict mode rejects the dynamic instead of coercing it. See String coercion and the asXXX family.

Returns: string

Examples

Example 1

print extract("(\\d+)", 1, "Raid on Lindisfarne in 793 AD")
print_0 (string)
793

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