Detect if field contains regex match, and if so, do something with that match
How Do I?
If a file URL variable has a pattern that looks like pound sign + number, I want to know that and act differently. In that case I also need to pull the number out and insert it into a URL.
My pseudo code would look something like this:
{if file_link matches regex /#%d/ }
<td><a href="http://someotherurl.com/{file_link_regex_result}">{file_link_title}</a></td>
{if:else}
<td><a href="http://{file_link}">{file_link_title}</a></td>
{/if}
` How can I accomplish this?
Would the replace variable modifier work here? https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/templates/variable-modifiers.html#replace
I see now that I can detect the pound sign plus number with the ~ operator as shown below, but I’m still not sure how to then extract the number for use in my URL.
{if title ~ "/#[ ]*\d+/" }
Thank you, Rob, that did the trick. Since my number always came at the end, I was able to delete everything from the start to the # character with this code:
{title:replace find='/.*#[ ]*/' replace='' regex='yes'}