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Actions Ecosystem Action Regex Match

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Actions Ecosystem Action Regex Match

Match a input text with a input regex

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: Actions Ecosystem Action Regex Match

              
  uses: actions-ecosystem/[email protected]
Learn more about this action in actions-ecosystem/action-regex-match

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Action Regex Match

actions-workflow-test release license

This is a GitHub Action to do regex matching and output the matched text and groups captured by the given regex.

GitHub Actions natively supports some helpful functions, like contains and startsWith, but doesn't regex matching. This actions provides the missing, useful function.

It would be more useful to use this with other GitHub Actions' outputs.

Inputs

NAME DESCRIPTION TYPE REQUIRED DEFAULT
text A text as the target for inputs.regex. string true N/A
regex A regex for inputs.text. Supports capturing groups. string true N/A
flags Flags for inputs.regex. e.g.) 'g', 'gm' string false ''

Outputs

NAME DESCRIPTION TYPE
match The whole matched text. If the inputs.regex doesn't match inputs.text, this value is ''. string
group1 The 1st captured group. string
group2 The 2nd captured group. string
group3 The 3rd captured group. string
group4 The 4th captured group. string
group5 The 5th captured group. string
group6 The 6th captured group. string
group7 The 7th captured group. string
group8 The 8th captured group. string
group9 The 9th captured group. string

Example

name: Add Label with Comment

on: [issue_comment]

jobs:
  create_comment:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - uses: actions-ecosystem/action-regex-match@v2
        id: regex-match
        with:
          text: ${{ github.event.comment.body }}
          regex: '^/label\s*(.*?)\s*$'

      - uses: actions-ecosystem/action-add-labels@v1
        if: ${{ steps.regex-match.outputs.match != '' }}
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          labels: ${{ steps.regex-match.outputs.group1 }}
name: Create Comment with Regex Match

on: [issue_comment]

jobs:
  create_comment:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - uses: actions-ecosystem/action-regex-match@v2
        id: regex-match
        with:
          text: ${{ github.event.comment.body }}
          regex: '```typescript([\s\S]*)```'
          flags: gm

      - uses: actions-ecosystem/action-create-comment@v1
        if: ${{ steps.regex-match.outputs.match != '' }}
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.github_token }}
          body: |
            Hello, @${{ github.actor }}!

            The raw TypeScript code is here.

            ---

            ${{ steps.regex-match.outputs.group1 }}

            ---

License

Copyright 2020 The Actions Ecosystem Authors.

Action Regex Match is released under the Apache License 2.0.