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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]
nav: wcp_docs
parent_url: /wcp_docs/
title: splitByRegex (regex)
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## <a id="section_m3p_myb_5db"></a>Description

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

## <a id="section_cyq_j1m_zsb"></a>Return Type

`List`

## <a id="section_dz5_pwg_5db"></a>Instance Method Syntax

```
thisString.splitByRegex(regex)
```

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

<b>Example</b>

`'1#2##3###4'.splitByRegex('#+').toJson()`

Returns `["1","2","3","4"]`

## <a id="section_dz5_pwg_5d"></a>Namespace Function Syntax

```
string:splitByRegex(string, regex)
```

<table><thead><tr><th>Parameter</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>string</td><td>The input String.</td></tr><tr><td>regex</td><td>A Regex expression.</td></tr></tbody></table><br/>