functx:substring-after-match

The substring after the first text that matches a regex

Description

The functx:substring-after-match function returns the part of $arg that appears after the first match of $regex. If $arg does not match $regex, the entire $arg is returned. If $arg is the empty sequence, the empty sequence is returned.

Parameters

Description

arg:string()

the string to substring

regex:string()

the regular expression

Examples

XPath

Results

functx:substring-after-match(‘abc-def-ghi’, ‘[ce]’)

-def-ghi

functx:substring-after-match(‘abcd-abcd’, ‘ab?’)

bcd-abcd

functx:substring-after-match(‘abcd-abcd’, ‘x’)

abcd-abcd

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