REGEXMATCHWhether a piece of text matches a regular expression.
Sample Usage
REGEXMATCH(“Spreadsheets”, “S.r”)
Syntax
REGEXMATCH(text, regular_expression)
text – The text to be tested against the regular expression.
regular_expression – The regular expression to test the text against.
Notes
Google products use RE2 for regular expressions. Google Sheets supports RE2 except Unicode character class matching. Learn more on how to use RE2 expressions.
This function only works with text (not numbers) as input and returns a logical value, i.e. TRUE or FALSE, as output. If numbers are used as input, convert them to text using the TEXT function.
See Also
REGEXEXTRACT: Extracts matching substrings according to a regular expression.
REGEXREPLACE: Replaces part of a text string with a different text string using regular expressions.
SUBSTITUTE: Replaces existing text with new text in a string.
REPLACE: Replaces part of a text string with a different text string.
Examples