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category: [, Administration & Integrations, Platform and Product Extensions, Platform and Product Extensions/Integration, Administration & Integrations/Custom Integrations & Apps, Platform and Product Extensions/Workday Extend]
keyword: [Extend, PMD Scripting, Scripts]
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title: split (text, regex)
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---

## Description

Splits the input text by the characters that match the regular expression and returns a list of the split substrings.

Equivalent to `string:splitByRegex(str, regex)`.

## <a id="section_1"></a>Return Type

`List`

## <a id="section_2"></a>Namespace Function Syntax

```
regex:split(text, regex)
```

<table><thead><tr><th>Parameter</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>text</td><td>The input string.</td></tr><tr><td>regex</td><td>The regular expression value separating each list item in the input text.</td></tr></tbody></table><br/>

<b>Examples</b>

`regex:split('123ABC456', '[a-zA-Z]+')`

Returns `['123', '456']`.