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find

Returns true if a regular expression matches the input string or a sub-string in the input string.

Information noteNote: This feature is only available in Talend Cloud Pipeline Designer and Talend Data Mapper.

Arguments

  1. Input string.
  2. Regular expression as a string.
  3. Optional: Boolean defining whether the regular expression is case insensitive. The default value is false.
  4. Optional: Boolean defining whether the . character matches any character, including line terminators. The default value is true.
  5. Optional: Timeout in milliseconds as a long. The default value is 10000.
  6. Optional: Boolean defining whether white space characters should be ignored in the expression. The default value is false.
  7. Optional: Boolean defining whether the input should be processed as multiple lines instead of a single string. If it is enabled, the ^ character can be used to match the beginning of the input and the beginning of each line, and the $ character can be used to match the end of the input and the end of each line. The default value is false.

Examples

Expression Result
find("Hello World!", "\w+ !", true, true, 15000, true, false) true

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