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REGEXTEST Function read tutorial watch tutorial

The REGEXTEST function allows you to determine if a text string matches a specified pattern. This function returns T
the text, and FALSE otherwise.

Syntax: =REGEXTEST(text, pattern, [ignore_case])

- text: The input string to test.

- pattern: The regular expression pattern to match.

- [ignore_case]: Optional. If TRUE (default), the match is case-insensitive.

Example 1: Test if a text string is present:

#NAME? =_xlfn.regextest("Hello World", "world")

Returns TRUE because the function ignores case by default.

Example 2: Validate whether a string is a correctly formatted email address.

Pattern: ^[\w.-]+@[\w.-]+\.\w+$

Explanation: The pattern is designed to match a valid email address format with the following structure:
1. Start of the string (^): Ensures the pattern matches from the beginning of the string.
2. Username part ([\w.-]+): Matches one or more characters that are either word characters (letters, digits, u
hyphens.
3. "@" character: Matches the literal "@" symbol separating the username and domain parts.
4. Domain name part ([\w.-]+): Matches one or more characters that are either word characters, dots, or hyp
5. Dot character (\.): Matches the literal dot before the top-level domain.
6. Top-level domain (\w+): Matches one or more word characters, representing the domain suffix.
7. End of the string ($): Ensures the pattern matches up to the end of the string.

[email protected] #NAME? =_xlfn.regextest(B28, "^[\w.-]+@[\w.-]+\.\w+$")

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[email protected] #NAME?

last.first@domain #NAME?
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Note: if you don't have a version

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functions you'll see @_xlfn.
before the function name.

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ord characters (letters, digits, underscores), dots, or

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ng the domain suffix.

"^[\w.-]+@[\w.-]+\.\w+$")
REGEXEXTRACT Function read tutorial watch tutorial

The REGEXEXTRACT function extracts substrings that match a specified pattern from the input text.

Syntax: =REGEXEXTRACT(text, pattern, [return_mode], [ignore_case])

- text: The input string.

- pattern: The regular expression pattern to extract.

- [return_mode]: Optional. Determines the return format:

- 0: First match (default)

- 1: Multiple matches as an array

- 2: Groupings for the first match as an array

- [ignore_case]: Optional. If TRUE (default), the match is case-insensitive.

Example 1: Extract the email address from the text in cell B23.

Pattern: [\w.-]+@[\w.-]+\.\w+
Explanation: The pattern [\w.-]+@[\w.-]+\.\w+ matches an email address format, where:
1. It starts with one or more word characters, dots, or hyphens.
2. Followed by the "@" symbol.
3. Then has one or more word characters, dots, or hyphens.
4. Followed by a dot.
5. Finally ending with one or more word characters.

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#NAME? {=_xlfn.regexextract(B23, "[\w.-]+@[\w.-]+\.\w+")}

Example 2: Extract the domain name from the URL in cell B36.

Pattern: (?<=//)(?:www\.)?([^/]+)
Explanation:
1. (?<=//): This is a positive lookbehind assertion. It ensures that the match is preceded by // without including // in the
2. (?:www\.)?: Non-capturing group to optionally match "www.".
3. ([^/]+): Capturing group to match the domain name. It matches one or more characters that are not a slash.

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REGEXREPLACE Function read tutorial

The REGEXREPLACE function replaces substrings matching a pattern with a replacement string.

Syntax: =REGEXREPLACE(text, pattern, replacement, [occurrence], [ignore_cas

- text: The input string.

- pattern: The regular expression pattern to match.

- replacement: The replacement text.

- [occurrence]: Optional. Determines which occurrences are replaced:

- 0: All occurrences (default)

- n: nth occurrence from the start

- -n: nth occurrence from the end

- [ignore_case]: Optional. If TRUE (default), the match is case-insensitive.

Example 1: Redact the first 6 digits of the phone number in cell B18.

Pattern: \d{3}-\d{3}

Explanation: The pattern `\d{3}-\d{3}` matches a string of exactly three digits followed by a hyphen and then exactly

1. \d: Matches any digit (0-9). It is a shorthand character class for numeric digits.
2. {3}:
This quantifier specifies that the preceding element (a digit, in this case) must occur exactly t
matches exactly three digits in a row.
3. -: Matches a literal hyphen (dash) character. It is not a special character in this context but is used
itself in the string.
4. \d: Again, matches any digit (0-9).
5. {3}: This quantifier specifies that the preceding element (a digit) must occur exactly three times.
exactly three digits in a row.

My phone number is 123-456-7890

My phone number is XXX-XXX-7890 =_xlfn.regexreplace(B23, "\d{3}-\d{3}", "XXX-XXX")

Example 2: Replace the first 5 digits of the Social Security Number (SSN) in cell B24 with asterisks.

Pattern: \d{3}-\d{2}
Explanation: The pattern `\d{3}-\d{2}` matches a string of exactly three digits followed by a hyphen and then exactly

My SSN is 123-45-6789

My SSN is *--6789 =_xlfn.regexreplace(B29, "\d{3}-\d{2}","*-")

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", "XXX-XXX")

B24 with asterisks.

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