Velocity: Regex capturing groups I was wondering if there's a possibility in velocity to use regex capturing groups? So, as a simple example, we may want to get "Some Name", "13:00" and "14:00" from the following input string: "Some Name: 13:00 - 14:00".
There are multiple ways how this can be achieved but one possibility would be to use a simple regex such as "^(.+):\s?(\d{1,2}:\d{1,2})\s?\-\s?(\d{1,2}:\d{1,2})$" and then extract the parts from the three capturing groups.
Something like "matches" in Velocity only returns a Boolean which can be used to e.g. compare a input to a pattern.
#set( $input = "Some Name: 13:00 - 14:00" )
#set( $regex = "^(.+):\s?(\d{1,2}:\d{1,2})\s?\-\s?(\d{1,2}:\d{1,2})$" )
#if ( $input.matches($regex) )
## We have a match
#end
In JavaScript land you could e.g. do something simple such as
const [_, name, timeFrom, timeTo] = "Some Name: 13:00 - 14:00".match(/^(.+):\s?(\d{1,2}:\d{1,2})\s?\-\s?(\d{1,2}:\d{1,2})$/i) || [];
Is there something sim
