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Regular Expression Parser

Designed to parse data from text sources using regular expressions. Data are parsed in the variables list.

Source

Set the text source data to be parsed from.

Expression

Set the regular expression.

Output Variables

The list of variables data to be parsed to.

Expression Flags

Setup advanced Regular Expression options.

Result not Begin of Line

When this flag is set then result does not represent the start of a new line.

Result not End of Line

When this flag is set then result does not represent the end of a line.

Result not Begin of Word

When this flag is set then result can never match the start of a word.

Result not End of Word

When this flag is set then result can never match the end of a word.

Dot not Match Newline

When this flag is set then a dot expression "." can not match the newline character.

Dot not Match Null

When this flag is set then a dot expression "." can not match a null character.

Match Any Results

When this flag is set, then the first string matched is returned, rather than the longest possible match. This flag can significantly reduce the time taken to find a match, but what matches is undefined.

Match Partial Results

When this flag is set, that is where one or more characters at the end of the text input matched some prefix of the regular expression.

The complete regular expression reference could be found at Microsoft site: Introduction to Regular Expressions. Or Wikipedia site