pyarrow.compute.extract_regex#

pyarrow.compute.extract_regex(strings,/,pattern,*,options=None,memory_pool=None)#

Extract substrings captured by a regex pattern.

For each string instrings, match the regular expression and, ifsuccessful, emit a struct with field names and values coming from theregular expression’s named capture groups. If the input is null or theregular expression fails matching, a null output value is emitted.

Regular expression matching is done using the Google RE2 library.

Parameters:
stringsArray-like or scalar-like

Argument to compute function.

patternstr

Regular expression with named capture fields.

optionspyarrow.compute.ExtractRegexOptions, optional

Alternative way of passing options.

memory_poolpyarrow.MemoryPool, optional

If not passed, will allocate memory from the default memory pool.