ReplaceMatchGroup

Returns a string with all matches of a regex pattern groups replaced by a replacement.

Type

python

Pack

CommonScripts

Source

import re

import demistomock as demisto
from CommonServerPython import *


def main(args):
    value = args["value"]
    replace_with = args["replace_with"]
    output = []
    start = 0

    try:
        regex = re.compile(args["regex"])
    except (re.error, TypeError):
        raise DemistoException("Could not compile regex.")

    for match in regex.finditer(value):
        for index, _ in enumerate(match.groups(), start=1):
            end = match.start(index)
            output.append(value[start:end])
            output.append(replace_with)
            start = match.end(index)
    output.append(value[start:])  # Handling the tail of the string

    return "".join(output)


if __name__ in ["__builtin__", "builtins", "__main__"]:
    result = main(demisto.args())
    demisto.results(result)

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