Test if the regular expression "regexp" accepts "string" and return list of matches

match_all(+regexp, +string, -matchlist)

match_all/3 Tests if the regular expression "regexp" accepts "string". Substrings in bracketed expressions are returned in sequence in "matchlist". "matchlist" is a list of lists, every list is the result of a possible match.

Arguments

	regexp              atom
	string              atom
	matchlist           atom

Examples

	match_all('%<(%w+)', ' one  two  three  ', L)	
		=> 	L = [one,two,three]

	match_all('((%w+)|(%s+))', 'a few tokens', L).
		=> L = [[a,a,''],[' ','',' '],[few,few,''],[' ','',' '],[tokens,tokens,'']]

	match_all('%<(%w+)', 'a few tokens', L).
		=> L = [[a],[few],[tokens]]

Standard

This predicate is not part of the ISO-Prolog Standard.

See also

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