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Enigmatic
Enigmatic

Reputation: 4148

Using regex to match words and numbers with whitespaces

I am trying to create a regex pattern that would match the following:

Updated x word word

x = being a number, e.g. 2

I have tried the following:

(Updated\s\d\s\w\s\w)

For example, I would like: Updated 2 mins ago, to match.

But it doesn't seem to work: http://regexr.com/3ef05

Upvotes: 1

Views: 73

Answers (2)

Kewin Dousse
Kewin Dousse

Reputation: 4027

Try this :

(Updated\s\d+\s\w+\s\w+)

The + means "one or more characters of this type", which is probably what you need here.

See it here : http://regexr.com/3ef0b

Upvotes: 1

Cristian Lupascu
Cristian Lupascu

Reputation: 40566

You need to use quantifiers to show that the digit and word groups can consist of more than one character:

(Updated\s\d+\s\w+\s\w+)

This works: http://regexr.com/3ef08

Upvotes: 1

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