stdlib/kotlin.text/Regex/findAll

findAll

actual fun findAll(input: CharSequence, startIndex: Int = 0): Sequence<MatchResult>(source)

Returns a sequence of all occurrences of a regular expression within the input string, beginning at the specified startIndex.

Since Kotlin

1.0

Samples


fun main() { 
   //sampleStart 
   val text = "Hello Alice. Hello Bob. Hello Eve."
val regex = Regex("Hello (.*?)[.]")
val matches = regex.findAll(text)
val names = matches.map { it.groupValues[1] }.joinToString()
println(names) // Alice, Bob, Eve 
   //sampleEnd
}

Throws

IndexOutOfBoundsException

if startIndex is less than zero or greater than the length of the input char sequence.