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How to use regular expressions in Deephaven

This guide will show you how to limit your data based on string values. To frame this understanding, we use the String Java Object and inherit the methods from that class, including the ability to search on Java regex. A full treatment of regexes is too extensive to include in this guide.

Filter with built-in methods​

In this example, a startsWith is used with where to limit the table to only values where X starts with A.

from deephaven import new_table
from deephaven.column import string_col, int_col

source = new_table([
    string_col("X", ["AA", "A x", "BaA", "5A", "a3B", "A"]),
    int_col("Y", [3, 2, 1, 5, 6, 4])
])

result = source.where(filters=["X.startsWith(`A`)"])

In this example, a startsWith is used with || to limit the table to only values where X starts with A or X starts with a.

result = source.where(filters=["X.startsWith(`A`) || X.startsWith(`a`)"])

startsWith is just one of the methods available. See the Javadocs for more built-in methods.

Filter with regex​

If there is no pre-built method to search the string for your desired results, you can filter with regex.

In this example, a RegexFilter is used to limit the table to values where X has three characters.

dh_regex_filter = jpy.get_type("io.deephaven.engine.table.impl.select.RegexFilter")
result = source.where([dh_regex_filter("X", "...")])

In this example, a RegexFilter is used to limit the table to values where X has any (zero or more) characters with a digit.

result = source.where([dh_regex_filter("X", ".*[0-9].*")])