How to use IsMatch Regular Expression

[Sidney_Vogel]

Hi all,

I am trying to use an IsMach activity with advanced option selected and the regex: “\b[O|o](ut|UT).\s[O|o](f|F).\s[O|o](ffice|FFICE)\b”

It should be able to match (OOO, ooo, Out of Office or any combination of out of office), this works fine and returns true when the input text contains such words, however, the problem is that it also returns True, for when the input is (POD Request Multiple, or POD Request Single), it should return false in this case.

Any ideas, would be much appreciated. Thank you.

[ppr (Peter Preuss)]

@Sidney_Vogel
You asked about the isMatch, but we do see your question more related to the Regex Pattern

Have a look here:

we enabled the Case Insensitive RegexOption and reduced the complexitiy of the pattern

[CheatSheet] - System.Text.RegularExpressions | RegEx

This CheatSheet introduces the basic use of regex functions. With further examples also special cases are presented. Introduction From the namespace System.Text.RegularExpressions following methods are offered: Regex.Match Regex.Matches Regex.isMatch Regex.Replace Regex.Split A simple usage for example would look like this: [grafik] Recommendation: add System.Text.RegularExpressions to the imports: [grafik] it allows to use the shortened statement, as the namespace part can be ommited…

Regex.IsMatch(YourString, "OOO|OUT OF OFFICE", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)

[Sanjit_Pal]

Hey @Sidney_Vogel ,

Apply the following properties to the isMatch activity to get the desired result.

Thanks,
Sanjit

[Sidney_Vogel]

@Sidney_Vogel

“\b[O|o](ut|UT).\s[O|o](f|F).\s[O|o](ffice|FFICE)\b”

Thank you this helps, but what’s wrong with this expression: “\b[O|o](ut|UT) .\s [O|o](f|F) .\s [O|o](ffice|FFICE) \b”, meaning why does it return true for (POD Request Multiple, or POD Request Single)?

[ppr (Peter Preuss)]

Kindly note: Code snippets are better to format with the </> from the editor as it can partly interpreted as Mark Down code

[Sidney_Vogel]

@Sidney_Vogel

“\b[O|o](ut|UT) .\s [O|o](f|F) .\s [O|o](ffice|FFICE)

Sorry, here \b[O|o]*(ut|UT)*\.*\s*[O|o]*(f|F)*\.*\s*[O|o]*(ffice|FFICE)*\b

[ppr (Peter Preuss)]

we do see unwanted matches but not on POD

In general we do feel that your initial question was answered

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[Sidney_Vogel]

Yes the question was answered and thank you for that I just wanted to understand the issue.

Thank you for all the help. Much appreciated.