# Need help with some text functions **URL:** \ **Category:** questions\ **Tags:** c11\ **Created:** [March 6, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/need-help-with-some-text-functions/3919 "2021-03-06T15:38:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 40
**Author:** ![vitesse](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/vitesse/32/837_2.png) [@vitesse](https://clarionhub.com/u/vitesse)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2024, 11:11am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/need-help-with-some-text-functions/3919/40 "2024-10-18T11:11:42Z")
> [@RchdR](#): > > So ST is using regexes then Hi Richard ST does have some Regex functionality but I had not thought of these new Character Range methods (introduced in version 3.70) in that light. I guess you could think of the character ranges as either having been borrowed from regex or alternatively implementing a very small subset of regex, but really it was just an abbreviation as I found typing out all the characters tedious and potentially error-prone and the alternative of writing a loop dealing with one character at a time seemed less than ideal. > [@RchdR](#): > > Are any of the methods that use regex labelled? I see you have started another thread which is a good idea as we are having thread drift here and being off-topic so I will answer over there instead: > [@StringTheory - Which methods can accept RegEx notation and any RegEx methods per se?](https://clarionhub.com/t/stringtheory-which-methods-can-accept-regex-notation-and-any-regex-methods-per-se/7575): > > Following on from @vitesse post which showed keepcharranges using a-z as a regex range, I wondered what other regex functionality exists. So looking through the docs I see a few like [https://www.capesoft.com/docs/stringtheory/StringTheory.htm#RegularExpressions](https://www.capesoft.com/docs/stringtheory/StringTheory.htm#RegularExpressions)[https://www.capesoft.com/docs/stringtheory/StringTheory.htm#Match](https://www.capesoft.com/docs/stringtheory/StringTheory.htm#Match)[https://www.capesoft.com/docs/stringtheory/StringTheory.htm#FindMatch](https://www.capesoft.com/docs/stringtheory/StringTheory.htm#FindMatch) But I wondered if the methods could be grouped so they stand out as ‘these are the regex/strpos me… --- _[View the full topic](https://clarionhub.com/t/need-help-with-some-text-functions/3919)._