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Revision as of 02:54, 9 March 2009
Function matches
Returns 1 if a string matches pattern or 0 if it does not. The pattern can be a regular expression. Matches performs a while string comparison, so the pattern must match the whole of the input string and not only part of it.
Usage
[h: val = matches(str, pattern)]
Examples
[r: matches("This is a test", "test")]
[r: matches("test", "test")]
[r: matches("This is a test", ".*test")]Returns
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