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is_regex

This function determines whether the provided value is of type regex or not.

This function does not generate an event.

Function

is_regex(value)

Arguments

Argument Type Description
value any (required) The value to be tested.

Return value

Returns true if the given value is of type regex, else it returns false.

Example

This code shows some return values for is_regex():

[
    is_regex( /.*/ ),
    is_regex( regex(".*") ),
    is_regex( ".*" ),
];

Return value in JSON format

[
    true,
    true,
    false
]