Regular expressions in Terraform

Question

I need to use regular expressions in my Terraform code. The documentation for the replace function says the string if wrapped in a forward slash can be treated as a regex.

I've tried the following:

Name = "${replace(var.string, var.search | lower(var.search), replace)}"

I need to use regex to replace either the string or the lower case of the string with the replace string.

Answer 1

Just to help someone else looking here... following the Terraform documentation: https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/functions/replace.html

To be recognized as a Regex, you need to put the pattern between / (slashes), like this:

 > replace("hello world", "/w.*d/", "everybody")
 > hello everybody