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Matt
Matt

Reputation: 26971

How can I match a pattern in regex that can contain anything (letters,numbers,...) but match only if it contains an underscore?

How can I match a pattern in regex that can contain anything (letters,numbers,...) but matches only if it contains an underscore?

Basically I want to match bob_hello but not bobhello.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 127

Answers (2)

Bevan
Bevan

Reputation: 44307

This seems pretty much like a homework question, so I'm not going to just give you the answer.

But, what you need to do is this:

Write a three part regular expression:

  1. First match any sequence of characters from the start of the string except '_'
  2. Then match exactly '_'
  3. Then match anything else, to the end of the string

There are other ways, of course - but this will work.

Upvotes: 2

Blindy
Blindy

Reputation: 67380

If you want to match everything, ^.*_.*$ will do it. If you just want to test if the string contains a _, _ will be enough.

Upvotes: 1

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