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Roll20-related {{wiki|Regular_expression|Regex}} snippets, that could be useful in [[Macro Guide|macro generation]], [[Character Sheet Development]]- and [[API Development]], along with creating external tools.

Depending on where you use the snippets, you might need to escape

=Snippets=

* &lt;code&gt;/(\/roll|\/r|\/em|\/w|\/whisper|\/gmroll|\/gr|\/ooc|\/fx|\/desc|\/as|\/emas|\/talktomyself|(\!|\#)[a-z\\-]*)/g&lt;/code&gt; - target any of the {{Text Chat}} commands, or any API command keywords (e.g.{{c|!token-mod}}) - [https://github.com/Anduh/rmacro/blob/a0ca976d20d4510d673346603e5164924b5cba85/syntaxes/rmacro.tmLanguage.json#L53 source]
* &lt;code&gt;/&amp;(?:[a-z\d]+|#\d+|#x[a-f\d]+);/g&lt;/code&gt; target any [[HTML Entities|HTML entity]] - [https://regexr.com/3eauj source]

TODO
* snippets to detect character_id, token_id, [[RowID]], attibutes
* improve above examples 

==Use Examples==

* [https://github.com/Roll20/roll20-character-sheets/blob/c4a6c37a53ca7c8375d75c0b6e5062cb6ffa089b/Supers-Revised-Edition/supers-revised.html#L1653 Supers RED char sheet] -- uses regex in [[Custom Roll Parsing]]-sheetworkers to parse [[Repeating Section]] attributes and sanitize attributes containing text intended to display with the final result
* [https://github.com/Roll20/roll20-api-scripts/blob/master/ChatSetAttr/1.10/ChatSetAttr.js 1.10/ChatSetAttr.js] -- [[ChatSetAttr]] API uses regex to parse and replace user commands with regex.
* [https://github.com/Anduh/rmacro/blob/main/syntaxes/rmacro.tmLanguage.json Roll20 Macros] -- [[VS Code]] extension to show syntax highlight for roll20 macros. Uses regex to identify snippets to highlight.

=Related Pages=
* [[VS Code]]
* [[Custom Roll Parsing]] - using regex is common for parsing roll results

=Links=
* https://regexr.com/ - has a search for community snippets
* https://regexper.com/ - visualize regex snippets
* https://regex101.com/

[[Category:Character Sheet Creation]]
[[Category:Character Sheet Development]]
[[Category:API Development]]
[[Category:Miscellaneous]]
[[Category:External Tools]]</rev>
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          <rev xml:space="preserve">La section en français du wiki est initialement crée puis tenue bénévolement tenue par JBdAmiens et bénéficie de la contribution bénévole des utilisateurs.
[[Category:Language-FR]]</rev>
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