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paparazzo
paparazzo

Reputation: 45096

Regex Comma or Comma Space or Space

My problem is the [,\s|,|\s] will match ", " as "," and leave a extra space

So I do not get a match "Sat, Mon" with:

(Thu|Fri|Sat)[,\s|,|\s](Mon|Tue)

By matching on (Thu|Fri|Sat)[,\s|,|\s] I get a match on "Sat, " but the match.Value is on "Sat," (no space)

Basically I want to also get a match on "Sat,Mon" "Sat, Mon" "Sat Mon" but not "SatMon"

Thanks

Upvotes: 4

Views: 23626

Answers (3)

AndHeiberg
AndHeiberg

Reputation: 1029

To build on @Jay answer. I would simply use a greedy match.

(Thu|Fri|Sat)(?:,|\s)+(Mon|Tue)

Upvotes: 2

Jay
Jay

Reputation: 57899

(Thu|Fri|Sat)[,\s]\s*(Mon|Tue)

This will allow comma or space and any additional space before Mon or Tue

Your version was conflating the notions of character classes and alternation. Alternation, where you separate options with | must be inside of parentheses. We can make these parentheses non-capturing using the (?: ) syntax.

Above, I used a character class. To use alternation:

(Thu|Fri|Sat)(?:,|\s)\s*(Mon|Tue)

I have used \s to denote whitespace, but for your purposes you could replace them with a literal space.

Upvotes: 9

Matt Tew
Matt Tew

Reputation: 1621

Try the following \s?[, ]\s?

Upvotes: 3

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