Regular expressions
This page was created by Christina on 2022-02-03. Last edited by Edgar on 2025-08-31.
In OCL, a regular expression match could be performed using regExpMatch, which will return true/false.
The following example shows one way to decide whether a string is a valid email address or not.
'Ă„ke.öberg@mdriven.se'.regExpMatch('^[a-öA-Ă0-9+_.-]+@[a-öA-Ă0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}$')