asserts.match

Check that text matches a regular expression.

📝Syntax

asserts.match(text, pattern)
[res, msg] = asserts.match(text, pattern)

📥Input Arguments

Parameter	Description
text	Character vector or string scalar to test.
pattern	Regular expression pattern.

📤Output Arguments

Parameter	Description
res	true if the assertion passes, false otherwise.
msg	assertion failure message, empty on success.

📄Description

The assertion passes when pattern matches text.

Invalid regular expressions raise an argument error immediately.

💡Examples

Regular expression match

asserts.match('abc123', '^abc[0-9]+$');

Capture a missing match

[res, msg] = asserts.match('abc', '[0-9]+');

🔗See Also

🕔Version History

Version	Description
2.0.0	initial version