Key Match Action

A simple action that looks for multiple regex matches, in a input text, and returns the key of the first found match.

TO RUN

Add the step to your github action yml

steps:
  - name: Manual Action Test
    id: match
    uses: ChristofferDahlen/Multi-Regex-Match@v1
    with:
      input: "This is the test string. It contains cats "
      json_match: '{ "(?i)(dog|cat)" : "animal", "(?i)(volvo|BMW)" : "(volvo|BMW)"}' # Imbedded json 

The output can then be acessed as ${{ steps.match.outputs.result }}

Parameters

Input	Description	Required
json_match	A json string containing a key-value pairs. The key is the regex expression used for matching (go flavor). The value is the returned output if it has been sucessfully matched. It returns only the first match.	yes
input	The input string that is used to match against	yes

Ouput	Description
result	The value (of the key value pair) of the first found match

Json matching format

The regex is in the golang dialect

{ 
"Regexp 1" : "outValue",
"Regexp 2" : "outValue", 
...
}