regex
A regular expression.
Can be used as a show rule selector and with
string methods like find, split, and replace.
See here for a specification of the supported syntax.
Example
// Works with string methods.
#"a,b;c".split(regex("[,;]"))
// Works with show rules.
#show regex("\d+"): set text(red)
The numbers 1 to 10.
ConstructorParameterParameters are input values for functions. Specify them in parentheses after the function name.
Parameter
Parameters are input values for functions. Specify them in parentheses after the function name.
Create a regular expression from a string.
regexRequiredRequiredRequired parameters must be specified when calling the function.PositionalPositionalPositional parameters can be set by specifying them in order, omitting the parameter name.
Required
Required
Required parameters must be specified when calling the function.
Positional
Positional
Positional parameters can be set by specifying them in order, omitting the parameter name.
The regular expression as a string.
Most regex escape sequences just work because they are not valid Typst
escape sequences. To produce regex escape sequences that are also valid in
Typst (e.g. \\), you need to escape twice. Thus, to match a verbatim
backslash, you would need to write regex("\\\\").
If you need many escape sequences, you can also create a raw element and extract its text to use it for your regular expressions:
Show example
regex(`\d+\.\d+\.\d+`.text).