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Hatefiend
Hatefiend

Reputation: 3596

Regex Match terms in between delimiters

I'd say I'm getting the hang at Regex but when it comes to extracting data, I'm lost. Here are the inputs I have to parse through:

Format:

String(String,...String,Integer)

Ex.

Jeff(White,Male,24)

Mark Zuckerberg(Facebook,9)

Grocery(Eggs,Cheese,Pancake,Bread,Milk,Strawberry,0)

I want to match the Strings and Integer, but not the commas or parenthesis.

This one is is a bit easy because the strings don't have symbols in them but the other day I needed to extract the word cake out of something like this:

<Header><Body><font=Tahoma,15pt><b>cake <\b><\font> and whenever I'd try, I'd match the entire statement, not just the cake word, because I'd do like:

.*<b>[a-zA-Z]+<\b>.*. So yeah... the whole concept of using Regex to extract bits of a string is foreign to me. How is it usually done in these two examples?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 359

Answers (1)

tchelidze
tchelidze

Reputation: 8318

Try following . 

(?<=<b>)\s*\cake\s*(?=<\\b>)

If you want to match word other than cake, try following.

(?<=<b>)\s*\w+\s*(?=<\\b>)

Regex to match string in first part of your Question (String(string, ... ,number))

^\w+\((\w+,)+\d\)$

In the first part of your Question, if you like to match only words and number (Grocery,Eggs, ... ,0) in your string, try following 

(?<=^|\(|\,)\w+

Upvotes: 1

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