format DataTable cell on string pattern match

[ficuscr]

A noob question here. Trying to figure out how I can set a class, or
otherwise style a cell in a DataTable, based off a string pattern in a
given cell. I see the google.visualization.ColorFormat class but it
only works with a number range. Is there not a method to format using
regex pattern matches? Should I be passing this with the underlying
data instead? Looking for advice. Hope this is the appropriate
place to ask. Thanks.

[MC Get Vizzy]

I don't think there's any class that does this, but you should be able to loop over the data table and call setFormattedValue() on each cell.

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[ficuscr]

Ok, after reading more I see a method which works fine for what I needed.  Using the PatternFormat I can use the distinct string values as class names to set a style on the 'cell'.

var formatter = new google.visualization.PatternFormat('<div class="class{0}">{0}</div>');

formatter.format(dataTable, [2]);

Works for this simple case.  Would still be nice if there were something that combined the functionality of ColorFormat with regular expressions or a some other more advanced logic than just numeric ranges.