| Test if the regular expression "regexp" accepts "string" and return list of matches
match_all(+regexp, +string, -matchlist)
match_all/3
Tests if the regular expression "regexp" accepts "string".
Substrings in bracketed expressions are returned in
sequence in "matchlist".
"matchlist" is a list of lists, every list is the result
of a possible match.
Arguments
regexp atom
string atom
matchlist atom
Examples
match_all('%<(%w+)', ' one two three ', L)
=> L = [one,two,three]
match_all('((%w+)|(%s+))', 'a few tokens', L).
=> L = [[a,a,''],[' ','',' '],[few,few,''],[' ','',' '],[tokens,tokens,'']]
match_all('%<(%w+)', 'a few tokens', L).
=> L = [[a],[few],[tokens]]
Standard
This predicate is not part of the ISO-Prolog Standard.
See also
regular expression,
match/2/3,
match_all/3,
substitute/4,
substitute_all/4,
split/2/3,
chop/2,
get_line/1/2,
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