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Hyland RPA
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Foundation 23.2
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A regular expression (RegEx) is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern. Usually this pattern is used by string searching algorithms for "find" or "find and replace" operations on strings , or for input validation.

We provide you within the Hyland RPA Designer three different activities you can use to perform regex algorithms. All of our activities provide you guidance configuring your pattern in form of a wizard.

  1. Is Regex Match: Checks whether a defined pattern or keyword occurs inside an input text and returns true or false.
  2. Regex Matches: Checks for a defined pattern or keyword inside an input text and returns a list of all matches found.
  3. Regex Replace: Checks for a defined pattern or keyword inside an input text and replaces all matches by a user defined replacement string.

In case that you want to configure the regex pattern yourself, you can directly set the pattern in the properties grid of the activities. Guidance to build your pattern can be found in the CheatSheet below and in various web pages as https://www.regular-expressions.info/ . For manual pattern configuration the wizard provided on https://regex101.com/ might be helpful.

CheatSheet

Type Pattern

Character Classes

.: Any character except newline

\w\d\s: Word, digit, whitespace

\W\D\S: Not word, digit, whitespace

[abc]: Any a, b or c

[^abc]: Not a, b or c

[a-k]: Characters between a and k

Anchors

^abc$: Start / end of String

\b\B: Word, not-word boundary

Escaped Characters

\.\*\\: Escaped special characters

\t\n\r: Tab, linefeed, carriage return

Groups & Lookaround

(abc): Capture group

\1: Backreference to group #1

(?:abc): Non-capturing group

(?=abc): Positive lookahead

(?!abc): Negative lookahead

Quantifiers & Alternation

a*: 0 or more

a+: 1 or more

a?: 0 or 1

a{2}: Exactly 2

a{2,}: Two or more

a{1,3} : Between one and three

ab|cd: Match ab or cd