10.3.5 Map

The map method of a regular expression object can be used to replace matched substrings using a custom function. This function takes a regular expression object as its first argument so we may use it to get additional information about the match being done and do conditional replacement. For example:

class Main {
  static function main() {
    var r = ~/(dog|fox)/g;
    var s = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.";
    var s2 = r.map(s, function(r) {
      var match = r.matched(0);
      switch (match) {
        case 'dog':
          return 'fox';
        case 'fox':
          return 'dog';
        default:
          throw 'Unknown animal: $match';
      };
    });
    trace(s2); // The quick brown dog jumped over the lazy fox.
  }
}

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