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PPA Tools PPA Tools: Regex

Summary

This module contains actions for searching & modifying text using regular expressions.

Actions

ppa_tools.regex.

replace

Replace a string with another inside some text using a regular expression.

Minimum Plugin Version: 5.6.0

Input

  • text: the text to process

  • expression: a regular expression that describes the text to replace

  • replacement: a string to replace any expression matches with

No Matches

This action will succeed and return the original text if no expression matches are found.

Output

A new copy of text with any replacements made.

Example

Removing all lines that end with - England:

- ppa_tools.regex.replace:
    expression: >
      .*\-\sEngland\n
    replacement: ""
    text: >
      London - England
      Manchester - England
      Paris - France
      New York - USA
  save: replaced

The output will be:

Paris - France
New York - USA