Method match

core/src/processing/core/PApplet.java:8538–8550

This function is used to apply a regular expression to a piece of text, and return matching groups (elements found inside parentheses) as a String array. If there are no matches, a null value will be returned. If no groups are specified in the regular expression, but the sequence matches, an

(String str, String regexp)

   * @see PApplet#trim(String)
   */
  static public String[] match(String str, String regexp) {
    Pattern p = matchPattern(regexp);
    Matcher m = p.matcher(str);
    if (m.find()) {
      int count = m.groupCount() + 1;
      String[] groups = new String[count];
      for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
        groups[i] = m.group(i);
      }
      return groups;
    }
    return null;
  }


  /**