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Kim Clinton
Kim Clinton

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Java Regex Anomaly?

I have a list of address such as the following:

Find Dabla Inc at 6889 66th Ave, NY, NY 11884-3773. Call them at (888) 292-1655.
Find Walgreen Drug Stores at 6008 87th Ave, NY, NY 17774-4314. Call them at (888) 999-473
Find Silver Star Restaurant at 6941 99th Ave Ste A, NY, NY 88804-2915. Call them at (888) 851-2799.

I am trying to extract the street address, state, city and zip code from this text via Regex.

Currently, I am using the following to match street address:

    (?<=at\s)\d{3,5}\s\S*\s\w*.*(?=,)

However, I see it inlcudes in match NY, instead of stopping after the first comma (it only stops after second comma).. Why is it including first comma if I'm using a positive lookahead?

Thannks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 53

Answers (1)

vks
vks

Reputation: 67998

(?<=at\s)\d{3,5}\s\S*\s\w*.*?(?=,)

                            ^^

Make your regex non greedy.

See demo: https://regex101.com/r/fX3oF6/14

Upvotes: 3

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