Re: [xsl] Is there a way in XSLT/XPath to find the portion of a string that matches a pattern?

["Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2025-03-10 at 22:08 +0000, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx
wrote:
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> On 10/03/2025 23:04, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxxx wrote:
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> B B  analyze-string("The person put 12 dollars into the jar",
> "[0-9]+")//*:match
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> returns an element node
>
> B B  <match xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions";>12</match>

Or you can use
    replace($input, '^.*(\d+).*$', '$1')
which returns "12" as a string.

If there are newlines in the input, add the 's' flag so that . will
cross line boundaries:
    replace($input, '^.*(\d+).*$', '$1', 'm')

Both techniques are useful although i find the gratuitous namespace of
analyze-string() a slight pain :-)


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