v0.13.6

C_Intl.FindStringMatches

functionguessedavailable in: camelot

Creates a string search iterator using a collator and returns every match position.

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function C_Intl.FindStringMatches(    text: string,    pattern: string,    strength: CollationStrength): number[]?

Parameters

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textstringThe UTF-8 text scanned by the string search iterator.
patternstringThe UTF-8 pattern whose collation-aware matches are returned.
strengthCollationStrengthThe comparison level used by the collator while searching for matches.

Returns

byteOffsets · number[]? · The UTF-8 byte offsets of matches in the text (returned with 1-based indexes for lua convenience).

Blizzard's documentation says it may return nothing.

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sources

Signature and flags: Blizzard's API documentation (Blizzard_APIDocumentationGenerated) (Intl system, camelot 1.60.1). Description: warcraft.wiki.gg's API pages ↗, by its contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗.