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Jason Shave
Jason Shave

Reputation: 2673

Regex match two words in a string

I'm trying to match (look for) two words in a string which is as follows:

Mac OS X/10.11.5 (15F34); ExchangeWebServices/6.0 (243);

I want to match (true) if we see "Mac" AND "ExchangeWebServices" but the characters between the two words would be unknown/random. Can someone help me with the regex syntax?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 7

Views: 58842

Answers (4)

Ryan Kolter
Ryan Kolter

Reputation: 1

(apple|banana) will ALSO match "applebanana"... try this instead:

(\bapple\b|\bbanana\b)

That will match either the whole word apple or the whole word banana, but not applebanana or bananaapple

Upvotes: 0

mrvinent
mrvinent

Reputation: 125

With this regular epression you can find the words and anything in between even if the words are longer than the words in the regular expression:

(Mac).*?(ExchangeWebServices).*?

It would find this string:

Mac OS X/10.11.5 whatever text in between (15F34); ExchangeWebServices/6.0 (243);

So, if you write the words without the end (ExchangeWebServ):

(Mac).*?(ExchangeWebServ).*?

It would find both strings:

Mac OS X/10.11.5 whatever text in between (15F34); ExchangeWebServices/6.0 (243);

And:

Mac OS X/10.11.5 whatever text in between (15F34); ExchangeWebServ/6.0 (243);

If you need to match exact words you'll need to use \b as mentioned in the answers above.

Upvotes: 3

Jim
Jim

Reputation: 3619

This will match exactly the words "Mac" and "ExchangeWebServices" with anything else between them:

\bMac\b.*\bExchangeWebServices\b

Regex 101 Example: https://regex101.com/r/sK2qG1/4

Upvotes: 18

krishnakant
krishnakant

Reputation: 375

This is a simple regular expression can be get by 

/^Mac.+ExchangeWebServices/

We are assuming 'Mac' and 'ExchangeWebServices' are two different words separated by some character.

you can follow the link to learn more of regular expressions Learning Regular Expressions

Upvotes: 5

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