replaceAll() | Decadis App Help Center

This function replaces all substrings matching the given regular expression with a given replacement.

Bash

replaceAll(text, regex, replacement) #Output: Text

Examples

Parser expression	Description
Bash `replaceAll(" Hello World ", "\\s", "")`	This example returns: HelloWorld All whitespace characters have been removed. `\s` is the regular expression equivalent for a whitespace.
Bash `replaceAll(" He__o Wor_d ", "_", "l")`	This example returns: Hello World

Parser expression

Description

Bash

replaceAll(" Hello World ", "\\s", "")

This example returns:

HelloWorld

All whitespace characters have been removed.

\s is the regular expression equivalent for a whitespace.

Bash

replaceAll(" He__o Wor_d ", "_", "l")

This example returns:

Hello World

Additional information

Parameters used in this function

Parameter	Input (data type)	Description
`text`	text	Any given text.
`regex`	text	A valid regular expression that grabs all substrings to be replaced.
`replacement`	text	This text will replace all substrings found by the regex.

Parameter

Input (data type)

Description

text

text

Any given text.

regex

text

A valid

regular expression

that grabs all substrings to be replaced.

replacement

text

This text will replace all substrings found by the regex.

Output

This function returns a text

This expression could be used to e.g. modify an issue's summary or description.

If you want to replace only the first matching occurrence, have a look at the replaceFirst() function.

replaceFirst("Hello World", "l", "_")	replaceAll("Hello World", "l", "_")
"He_lo World"	"He__o Wor_d"

If you don't want to use a regular expression, have a look at the findReplaceAll() function.

📚 Use cases and examples

Use case	JWT feature	Workflow function	Field type	Automated action	Parser functions
Add links to the issues in a ScriptRunner Issue Picker field				Create issue link action Delete issue link action	issueKeysToIssueList() toString() toStringList() replaceAll() previousValue()
Send email with the URL of the attachments included in the description		Send email			replaceAll() toString() attachmentUrls() findPattern()
Inline images in a generated email		Send email			replaceAll()
Prevent issue creation if description contains less than 100 characters		Logical validator			replaceAll() length()
Evaluate Assets objects		Logical validator Logical condition			findPattern() findReplaceAll() replaceAll() toStringList()
Google Maps location	(input latin letters)		Text		replaceAll() toLowerCase()