Regex.match

Scans for a match in string for the pattern in regex. The match_options are combined with the match options specified when the regex structure was created, letting you have more flexibility in reusing vte.Regex structures.

Unless G_REGEX_RAW is specified in the options, string must be valid UTF-8.

A glib.MatchInfo structure, used to get information on the match, is stored in match_info if not NULL. Note that if match_info is not NULL then it is created even if the function returns FALSE, i.e. you must free it regardless if regular expression actually matched.

To retrieve all the non-overlapping matches of the pattern in string you can use MatchInfo.next.

static void
print_uppercase_words (const gchar *string)
{
// Print all uppercase-only words.
GRegex *regex;
GMatchInfo *match_info;

regex = g_regex_new ("[A-Z]+", 0, 0, NULL);
g_regex_match (regex, string, 0, &match_info);
while (g_match_info_matches (match_info))
{
gchar *word = g_match_info_fetch (match_info, 0);
g_print ("Found: `s`\n", word);
g_free (word);
g_match_info_next (match_info, NULL);
}
g_match_info_free (match_info);
g_regex_unref (regex);
}

string is not copied and is used in glib.MatchInfo internally. If you use any glib.MatchInfo method (except MatchInfo.free) after freeing or modifying string then the behaviour is undefined.

class Regex
bool
match

Parameters

string_ string

the string to scan for matches

matchOptions GRegexMatchFlags

match options

matchInfo MatchInfo

pointer to location where to store the glib.MatchInfo, or NULL if you do not need it

Return Value

Type: bool

TRUE is the string matched, FALSE otherwise

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Since

2.14