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This function uses regular expression syntax to match a string to a pattern. The pattern must be a valid regular expression pattern.
This match operation does a complete match. It will not match, if the pattern only matches/represents a part of the string.

Usage:

Matches( string, pattern )

Parameters:

string	database field containing a string or a text string
pattern	a string which defines the regular expression pattern

Returns:

True, if string is a complete match to pattern.

Examples:

Matches ("Berlin", "B.rlin")       // Returns True.
Matches ("Berlin", "B.*")          // Returns True.
Matches ("Berlin", "[Berlin]{6}")  // Returns True.
Matches ("Berlin", ".")            // Returns False, since it is only a partial match.