Regular Expressions

Smartbox.ai supports the building and applying of Regular Expressions to use in your data analysis.

Regular Expressions enable the defining of patterns to capture particular terms or phrases e.g. ID numbers.

If you need help creating Regular Expressions, we'd recommend contacting your IT team or getting in touch with us.

To create a Regular Expression:

Select Regular Expressions from the Settings drop-down in the header navigation

• Add a name and a description
• Insert your expression
• Click the plus button to save

• To delete a Regular Expression, click the Bin / Trash button next to an expression.

To apply your expression to an existing box: 

• Go to Box Settings.
• Scroll down to Regex.
• Select your regex.
• Hit Run AI Search.