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This function determines whether the provided value is of type regex or not.
This function does not generate an event.
is_regex(value)
Argument | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
value | any (required) | The value to be tested. |
Returns true
if the given value is of type regex, else it returns false
.
This code shows some return values for is_regex():
[
is_regex( /.*/ ),
is_regex( regex(".*") ),
is_regex( ".*" ),
];
Return value in JSON format
[
true,
true,
false
]