1{ 2 "name": "regexp_replace", 3 "type": "function", 4 "groups": ["String"], 5 "description": "Returns a string with the supplied regular expression replaced.", 6 "arguments": [ {"arg":"input_string","description":"the string to replace matches in"}, 7 {"arg":"regex","description":"The regular expression to replace. Backslash characters must be double escaped (e.g., \"\\\\\\\\s\" to match a white space character)."}, 8 {"arg":"replacement","description":"The string that will replace any matching occurrences of the supplied regular expression. Captured groups can be inserted into the replacement string using \\\\\\\\1, \\\\\\\\2, etc."} 9 ], 10 "examples": [ { "expression":"regexp_replace('QGIS SHOULD ROCK','\\\\\\\\sSHOULD\\\\\\\\s',' DOES ')", "returns":"'QGIS DOES ROCK'"}, 11 { "expression":"regexp_replace('ABC123','\\\\\\\\d+','')", "returns":"'ABC'"}, 12 { "expression":"regexp_replace('my name is John','(.*) is (.*)','\\\\\\\\2 is \\\\\\\\1')", "returns":"'John is my name'"} 13 ] 14} 15