matchall

matchall(r::Regex, s::AbstractString[, overlap::Bool=false]) -> Vector{AbstractString}

Return a vector of the matching substrings from eachmatch.

Examples

julia> matchall(r"[a-z]", "is a letter")
9-element Array{SubString{UTF8String},1}:
 "i"
 "s"
 "a"
 "l"
 "e"
 "t"
 "t"
 "e"
 "r"

In the Julia programming language, the function matchall(r::Regex, s::AbstractString[, overlap::Bool=false]) is used to find all occurrences of a regular expression pattern r in a given string s. It returns a vector of the matching substrings from each match.

Here are some examples of how to use the matchall function:

Find all occurrences of a pattern in a string:
```
julia> str = "Hello, Julia is awesome! Julia is fast.";
julia> matches = matchall(r"Julia", str);
julia> matches
2-element Array{SubString{String},1}:
"Julia"
"Julia"
```
This example finds all occurrences of the pattern "Julia" in the given string str and returns them as a vector of substrings.
Retrieve all matching substrings in a case-insensitive manner:
```
julia> str = "Julia is a versatile language. julia is powerful.";
julia> matches = matchall(r"julia"; ignorecase=true, overlap=false);
julia> matches
2-element Array{SubString{String},1}:
"Julia"
"julia"
```
By setting the ignorecase parameter to true, the pattern matching becomes case-insensitive. The overlap parameter is set to false to avoid overlapping matches.
Handle overlapping matches:
```
julia> str = "ababab";
julia> matches = matchall(r"a"; overlap=true);
julia> matches
3-element Array{SubString{String},1}:
"a"
"a"
"a"
```
In this example, the overlap parameter is set to true to allow overlapping matches. Each occurrence of the pattern "a" is considered as a separate match.

Common mistake example:

julia> str = "Hello, Julia is awesome!";
julia> matches = matchall("Julia", str);
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching matchall(::String, ::String)

In this example, the regular expression pattern is provided as a string instead of a Regex object. Make sure to use the Regex constructor to create a regular expression object for pattern matching using matchall.

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