RMMV Need Regex/Match Help

[Frostorm]

Hi, I've been learning a lot of JS lately, but 1 thing I haven't been able to understand clearly is the symbols for searching terms. Examples:

• stuff.match(/(\(.*\))/i)
• stuff.match(/(circle|line|square|cross)\((.+)\)/i)

It's those "*", "+", etc...that I don't understand...

 

[TheoAllen]

This might help

regex101: build, test, and debug regex

Regular expression tester with syntax highlighting, explanation, cheat sheet for PHP/PCRE, Python, GO, JavaScript, Java, C#/.NET.

regex101.com

* means match with the previous character, none or more.
+ means match with the previous character, one or more.
Since you're using a greedy match, (using dot), it matches with everything (except newline feed).

In your example, /(\(.*\))/i match with the following string

• (asdfghg)
• (12345)
• (asd2345)
• ()

But if you turn /(\(.*\))/i to /(\(.+\))/i, it won't match with empty parenthesis. It has to have something within the parenthesis.

 

[Frostorm]

Hmm...I get 2 errors on the site u linked using the same code I posted above. The code works in game (I'm not the author of the plugin containing the Regex) so idk why it says I need to add more backslashes.


Btw, what if I want it to search/match anything that contains "e."? As in the letter "e" followed by a period, or does it not search for periods?

Edit: Nvm, I figured it out. Thx for that website, it was super helpful!

 

[TheoAllen]

Good that you have found your answer, but I will leave my answer here for a sake of others.

Btw, what if I want it to search/match anything that contains "e."? As in the letter "e" followed by a period, or does it not search for periods?

Period (.) in regex is used for the greedy matches. If you want an exact match with it, use \.

The confusing part of REGEX is sometimes it isn't consistent. See, to "neutralize" the matching token, you have to put \, but the opposite is also true because you need \d to match with any number. Putting d on its own is just an exact match with the character d.