Page Updated:   2022-06-05

Roll20-related 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

• /(\/roll|\/r|\/em|\/w|\/whisper|\/gmroll|\/gr|\/ooc|\/fx|\/desc|\/as|\/emas|\/talktomyself|(\!|\#)[a-z\\-]*)/g - target any of the q Text Chat commands, or any API command keywords (e.g.!token-mod) - source
• /&(?:[a-z\d]+|#\d+|#x[a-f\d]+);/g target any HTML entity - [regexr.com/3eauj source]

TODO

• snippets to detect character_id, token_id, RowID, attibutes
• improve above examples

Use Examples

• 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
• 1.10/ChatSetAttr.js -- ChatSetAttr API uses regex to parse and replace user commands with regex.
• 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/