vrl 0.32.0

Vector Remap Language
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{
  "anchor": "match",
  "name": "match",
  "category": "String",
  "description": "Determines whether the `value` matches the `pattern`.",
  "arguments": [
    {
      "name": "value",
      "description": "The value to match.",
      "required": true,
      "type": [
        "string"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "pattern",
      "description": "The regular expression pattern to match against.",
      "required": true,
      "type": [
        "regex"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "return": {
    "types": [
      "boolean"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "title": "Regex match on a string",
      "source": "match(\"I'm a little teapot\", r'teapot')",
      "return": true
    },
    {
      "title": "String does not match the regular expression",
      "source": "match(\"I'm a little teapot\", r'.*balloon')",
      "return": false
    }
  ],
  "pure": true
}