REGEXMATCH

Whether a piece of text matches a regular expression.

Sample Usage

REGEXMATCH("Spreadsheets", "S.r")

Syntax

REGEXMATCH(text, regular_expression)

  • text - The text to be tested against the regular expression.

  • regular_expression - The regular expression to test the text against.

Notes

  • Google products use RE2 for regular expressions. Google Sheets supports RE2 except Unicode character class matching. Learn more on how to use RE2 expressions.
  • This function only works with text (not numbers) as input and returns a logical value, i.e. TRUE or FALSE, as output. If numbers are used as input, convert them to text using the TEXT function.

See Also

REGEXEXTRACT: Extracts the first matching substrings according to a regular expression.

REGEXREPLACE: Replaces part of a text string with a different text string using regular expressions.

SUBSTITUTE: Replaces existing text with new text in a string.

REPLACE: Replaces part of a text string with a different text string.

Examples

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