Replace - Regular expression

[NicoLaval]

Issue Description

Quoting the Reference Manual:

• replace: (line 2723) pattern1 the pattern to be replaced

• match_characters: (line 4104) pattern: the regular expression

For replace function, the second param, pattern1 is a string.

Can it be a regular expression?

I would say yes

Proposed Solution

Explicitly enable regex param for replace: update line 2723: pattern1 the pattern (regular expression) to be replaced

[vpinna80]

Agree, also already implemented this way

[linardian]

Agreed. Current VTL 2.1 version document updated.