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olliejjc16
olliejjc16

Reputation: 371

Regex to match character string with none to multiple hyphens

Hi I need to match a character string which can have 0+ hyphens in between the characters. I'm using PHP preg-match to do this. The characters can be upper or lowercase. Here's a few examples:

TESTTESTtest published successfully
test-TEST-test published successfully
Test-test published successfully

My regex needs to capture all these different cases.

I am going through a log line by line and trying to match the regex below to each line.

This is my current if statement: 

if(preg_match('/(\w*) published successfully/',$line,$matches){

}

I just used \w* as my character capture as I didn't need to worry about hyphens before but I need to adapt this to handle the new scenario. Can anyone help me out?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 158

Answers (1)

Wiktor Stribiżew
Wiktor Stribiżew

Reputation: 626870

If you do not need to worry about edge cases like ----- published successfully all you need is to add the \w and - to a character class [...] (and I also suggest using a + quantifier to match 1 or more occurrences, not 0 or more, to avoid getting empty matches):

if(preg_match('/([\w-]+) published successfully/',$line,$matches){

}

See the regex demo.

Upvotes: 1

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