Reputation:
Regex - Complex Capture
This is hard to explain, I have this Regex ([a-zA-Z][\w.]+|[0-9][0-9_.]*[a-zA-Z]+[\w.]*):(.*) - It captures Username:Whatever and it only captures usernames on the First Capture Group.
The issue is that when I replace the Username part with an Email, It captures everything after the @ of the email. I want it to capture NOTHING at all not even the "Whatever" bit.
I cant find a way to do this.
Example input's:
[email protected]:123abc
username:123abc
[email protected]:abc123
Shiny:abc123
Output should be:
username:123abc
Shiny:abc123
Current Regex outputs:
domain.ext:123abc
username:123abc
gmail.com:abc123
shiny:abc123
Upvotes: 0
Views: 36
Answers (1)
Reputation: 33496
Adding anchors ^ and $ to the beginning and end of the regex will force the matches to occur from the beginning to the end of the string.
^([a-zA-Z][\w.]+|[0-9][0-9_.]*[a-zA-Z]+[\w.]*):(.*)$
If you then activate the Multiline mode, it will make the anchors match at the beginning and end of each line instead.
Upvotes: 1