RegExp class

A regular expression pattern.

Regular expressions are Patterns, and can as such be used to match strings or parts of strings.

Dart regular expressions have the same syntax and semantics as JavaScript regular expressions. See ecma-international.org/ecma-262/9.0/#sec-regexp-regular-expression-objects for the specification of JavaScript regular expressions.

firstMatch is the main implementation method that applies a regular expression to a string and returns the first RegExpMatch. All other methods in RegExp can build on it.

Use allMatches to look for all matches of a regular expression in a string.

The following example finds all matches of a regular expression in a string.

RegExp exp = new RegExp(r"(\w+)");
String str = "Parse my string";
Iterable<RegExpMatch> matches = exp.allMatches(str);

Note the use of a raw string (a string prefixed with r) in the example above. Use a raw string to treat each character in a string as a literal character.

Implemented types

Constructors

RegExp(String source, { bool multiLine: false bool caseSensitive: true @Since("2.4") bool unicode: false @Since("2.4") bool dotAll: false })
Constructs a regular expression. [...]
factory

Properties

isCaseSensitive bool
Whether this regular expression is case sensitive. [...]
read-only
isDotAll bool
Whether "." in this regular expression matches line terminators. [...]
@Since("2.4"), read-only
isMultiLine bool
Whether this regular expression matches multiple lines. [...]
read-only
isUnicode bool
Whether this regular expression is in Unicode mode. [...]
@Since("2.4"), read-only
pattern String
The source regular expression string used to create this RegExp.
read-only
hashCode int
The hash code for this object. [...]
read-only, inherited
runtimeType Type
A representation of the runtime type of the object.
read-only, inherited

Methods

allMatches(String input, [ int start = 0 ]) Iterable<RegExpMatch>
Returns an iterable of the matches of the regular expression on input. [...]
override
firstMatch(String input) RegExpMatch
Searches for the first match of the regular expression in the string input. Returns null if there is no match.
hasMatch(String input) bool
Returns whether the regular expression has a match in the string input.
stringMatch(String input) String
Returns the first substring match of this regular expression in input.
matchAsPrefix(String string, [ int start = 0 ]) Match
Match this pattern against the start of string. [...]
inherited
noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) → dynamic
Invoked when a non-existent method or property is accessed. [...]
inherited
toString() String
Returns a string representation of this object.
inherited

Operators

operator ==(dynamic other) bool
The equality operator. [...]
inherited

Static Methods

escape(String text) String
Returns a regular expression that matches text. [...]