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Class | Table
Name | ### matchRows()
Examples |
    Table table;

    void setup() {

      table = new Table();

      table.addColumn("name");
      table.addColumn("type");

      TableRow newRow = table.addRow();
      newRow.setString("name", "Lion");
      newRow.setString("type", "Mammal");

      newRow = table.addRow();
      newRow.setString("name", "Snake");
      newRow.setString("type", "Reptile");

      newRow = table.addRow();
      newRow.setString("name", "Mosquito");
      newRow.setString("type", "Insect");

      newRow = table.addRow();
      newRow.setString("name", "Lizard");
      newRow.setString("type", "Reptile");

      for (TableRow row : table.matchRows("R.*", "type")) {
        println(row.getString("name") + ": " + row.getString("type"));
      }
    }

    // Sketch prints:
    // Snake: Reptile
    // Lizard: Reptile
Description | Finds the rows in the Table that match the regular expression provided, and returns references to those rows. Returns an iterator, so for must be used to iterate through all the rows, as shown in the example above. The column to search may be specified by either its ID or title.
Syntax |
    .matchRows(regexp, column)
    .matchRows(regexp, columnName)
Parameters |
regexp | String: the regular expression to match
column | int: ID number of the column to search
columnName | String: title of the column to search
Returns | Iterable<TableRow>
Related | getRow() rows() findRow() findRows() matchRow()

Updated on November 10, 2017 05:36:31pm EST