Using regular expressions in a script

[Victor Warner]

I have a text field. It contains names (usually two or three words).

Is it possible to extract only the first word in a script field in way using regular expressions? (eg ^(\S+) (.*)$ or ^(.+?) (.*)$).

[Brendan]

I imagine you can just use the regular JavaScript regular expression support:

https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_regexp.asp

But I haven’t tested it myself.

[Sam Moffatt]

Correct, the standard built in Javascript engine works within the scripts.

If you check out my repo there is a match example and a replace example (also includes a sample of creating a RegExp object as well if you look up a few lines).

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