Does Kotlin have support for named regex groups?
Named regex group looks like this: (?<name>...)
Does Kotlin have support for named regex groups?
Named regex group looks like this: (?<name>...)
According to this discussion,
This will be supported in Kotlin 1.1. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-12753
Kotlin 1.1 EAP is already available to try.
"""(\w+?)(?<num>\d+)""".toRegex().matchEntire("area51")!!.groups["num"]!!.value
You'll have to use kotlin-stdlib-jre8
.
As of Kotlin 1.0 the Regex
class doesn't provide a way to access matched named groups in MatchGroupCollection
because the Standard Library can only employ regex api available in JDK6, that doesn't have support for named groups either.
If you target JDK8 you can use java.util.regex.Pattern
and java.util.regex.Matcher
classes. The latter provides group
method to get the result of named-capturing group match.