Regular expressions

What is a regular expression

A regular expression is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern, where each character has a specific meaning.

For example \b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,}\b defines any email address.

Using regular expressions in CLOUDFLOW

There are various functionalities in CLOUDFLOW where you can use regular expressions. Here are some examples:
  • In SHARE, you can define a regular expression filter when creating a syncspec.
  • In WORK SERVERS > FILE INDEXING, you can define a regular expression when defining an Asset Filter.
  • In Form Builder > Item Repeater and Form Builder > Text you can define a regular expression to force the user to use a specific pattern for the text.
  • In USERS > MANAGE SCOPES, you can define a regular expression to create a filter.

Examples

  • .*/Artwork/.*\.pdf$ matches all files with extension pdf that are located in the folder Artwork.
  • ^PP_FILE_STORE/blech matches all files in a folder that starts with PP_FILE_STORE.

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