RegExp

[Duncan Beevers]

I feel as though I must be missing something obvious here.

I'm trying to use the RegExp class to do very basic text replacement:

import org.as2lib.regexp.Pattern;
import org.as2lib.regexp.Matcher;

  public function Sanitize(content:String):String
  {
    var filter_expression:String = "<.*?>";
    var filter_pattern:Pattern = new Pattern(filter_expression);
    var matcher:Matcher = new Matcher(filter_pattern, content);
    return matcher.replaceAll("");
  }

Everything compiles smoothly, but the output is difficult to understand.

For example,

Sanitize("apples"); returns "apples"
Sanitize("apples<oranges>"); returns null

What am I missing?

[Ben Ford]

It seems like this forum is dead.

I am stuck using Actionscript 2.0 and don't have any other way to perform regular expressions.

Here is my working example:

import org.as2lib.regexp.Pattern;
import org.as2lib.regexp.Matcher;

var someText = "helloWorld1";

var pattern:Pattern = new Pattern("\\w+(\\d)");
var matcher:Matcher = new Matcher(pattern, someText );

label2.text = matcher.matches(); //returns "true"
label3.text = matcher.getGroup(1); //returns "1"