replace_regex()

Syntax

replace_regex(text,regex, rewrite)

Arguments

• text: A string.
• regex: The regular expression to search text. The expression can contain capture groups in parentheses.
• rewrite: The replacement regex for any match made by matchingRegex. Use \0 to refer to the whole match, \1 for the first capture group, \2 and so on for subsequent capture groups.

Returns

source after replacing all matches of regex with evaluations of rewrite. Matches do not overlap.

See also

• For string matching, see replace_string().
• For replacing a set of characters, see translate().

Example

range x from 1 to 5 step 1
| extend str=strcat('Number is ', tostring(x))
| extend replaced=replace_regex(str, @'is (\d+)', @'was: \1')