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myeong
myeong

Reputation: 137

regex: match any word with numbers

I checked on stackoverflow already but didn't find a solution I could use. I need a regular expression to match any word (by word I mean anything between full spaces) that contains numbers. It can be alphanumeric AB12354KFJKL, or dates 11/01/2014, or numbers with hyphens in the middle, 123-489-568, or just plain normal numbers 123456789 - but it can't match anything without numbers. Thanks,

Better example of what I want (in bold) in a sample text:

ABC1 ABC 23-4787 ABCD 4578 ABCD 11/01/2014 ABREKF

Upvotes: 11

Views: 30183

Answers (2)

Anderson Pimentel
Anderson Pimentel

Reputation: 5767

There must be something better, but I think this should work:

\S*\d+\S*

\S* - Zero or more non-whitespace characters

\d+ - One or more digits

\S* - Zero or more non-whitespace characters

Upvotes: 23

Tim Biegeleisen
Tim Biegeleisen

Reputation: 521289

Use this lookahead:

(?=\D*\d)

This asserts that the string contains any quantity of non numeric characters (\D) followed by a single digit.

If you want to match/capture the string, then just add .* to the regex:

(?=\D*\d).*

Reference: http://www.rexegg.com/regex-lookarounds.html

Upvotes: 0

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