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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">REGEX Function</title>
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<paragraph id="hd_id961542230672100" role="heading" level="1" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/scalc/01/func_regex.xhp" name="function REGEX">REGEX</link></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="code" id="par_id701542231253817" xml-lang="en-US">REGEX( Text ; Expression [ ; [ Replacement ] [ ; Flags ] ] )</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id621542232197446" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>Text</emph>: A text or reference to a cell where the regular expression is to be applied.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id211542232209275" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>Expression</emph>: A text representing the regular expression, using <link href="https://userguide.icu-project.org/strings/regexp" name="ICU REGEXP">ICU regular expressions</link>. If there is no match, #N/A is returned.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id581542232755604" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>Replacement</emph>: Optional. The replacement text and references to capture groups. If there is no match, <emph>Text</emph> is returned unmodified.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id421542232246840" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>Flags</emph>: Optional. "g" replaces all matches of <emph>Expression</emph> in <emph>Text</emph>, not extracted. If there is no match, <emph>Text</emph> is returned unmodified.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id371542291684176" xml-lang="en-US"><item type="input">=REGEX("123456ABCDEF";"[:digit:]";"Z")</item> returns "Z23456ABCDEF", where the first match of a digit is replaced by "Z".</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id891542291697194" xml-lang="en-US"><item type="input">=REGEX("123456ABCDEF";"[:digit:]";"Z";"g")</item> returns "ZZZZZZABCDEF", where all digits were replaced by "Z".</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id21542291705695" xml-lang="en-US"><item type="input">=REGEX("123456ABCDEF";"[1|2|6]";"";"g")</item> returns "345ABCDEF", where any occurrence of "1", "2" or "6" is replaced by the empty string, thus deleted. </paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id711542233602553" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/shared/01/02100001.xhp" name="regex lists">List of regular expressions</link></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id431542233650614" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="https://userguide.icu-project.org/strings/regexp" name="ICU REGEXP">ICU regular expressions</link></paragraph>
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