%ereg()

Aliases%ereg()
Parametersstring @pattern, string @text

    Returns a 1 if the text is matched by the regular expression defined by
    pattern, otherwise returns 0. This function uses the POSIX extended
    regular expression syntax which is beyond the scope of this document and
    is left to the reader. The internet should yield many valuable resources
    about this topic.

    Example:

        if( !%ereg( "^[[:space:]]*[[:digit:]]+[[:space:]]*$", @arguments ) )
        {
            echoto char @n You may only input a number!
            return
        }
        endif

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