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diff --git a/docs/content/en/functions/replacere.md b/docs/content/en/functions/replacere.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a2149b6d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/content/en/functions/replacere.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +title: replaceRE +description: Replaces all occurrences of a regular expression with the replacement pattern. +date: 2017-02-01 +publishdate: 2017-02-01 +lastmod: 2020-09-07 +categories: [functions] +menu: + docs: + parent: "functions" +keywords: [regex] +signature: ["strings.ReplaceRE PATTERN REPLACEMENT INPUT [LIMIT]", "replaceRE PATTERN REPLACEMENT INPUT [LIMIT]"] +workson: [] +hugoversion: +relatedfuncs: [] +deprecated: false +aliases: [] +--- + +`strings.ReplaceRE` returns a copy of `INPUT`, replacing all matches of the regular +expression `PATTERN` with the replacement text `REPLACEMENT`. +The number of replacements can be limited with an optional `LIMIT` parameter. + +``` +{{ replaceRE "^https?://([^/]+).*" "$1" "http://gohugo.io/docs" }}` → "gohugo.io" +{{ "http://gohugo.io/docs" | replaceRE "^https?://([^/]+).*" "$1" }}` → "gohugo.io" +{{ replaceRE "a+b" "X" "aabbaabbab" 1 }} → "Xbaabbab" +``` + +{{% note %}} +Hugo uses Go's [Regular Expression package](https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/), which is the same general syntax used by Perl, Python, and other languages but with a few minor differences for those coming from a background in PCRE. For a full syntax listing, see the [GitHub wiki for re2](https://github.com/google/re2/wiki/Syntax). + +If you are just learning RegEx, or at least Go's flavor, you can practice pattern matching in the browser at <https://regex101.com/>. +{{% /note %}} |