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Anisha
Anisha

Reputation: 23

Regex to remove a character if followed by another character in java

Working on a regex in java to find words that follow the below rules

Regex Rules:

  1. Word could start with - (optional Prefix)letters could be any of these 'c''p''y''r''a''u'
  2. Followed by capital T
  3. Followed by number between 0 to 9
  4. (optional Suffix)Followed by lower case letters that doesn't include letters p or y or r or u. Can be one or two letters

Problem:If the above said suffix for the word is a or b or c and followed by a capital N then the regex should ignore that letter and what follows it.Look in test cases for clarification.

Test cases

  1. pT1c - should return the whole word pT1c (since N doesnt follow the c)
  2. cT4bcN2 - should return just cT4b (since c is followed by N ignore those two letters and the rest that follows them)
  3. cT3cN2 - should return cT3(since c is followed by N ignore those 2 letters and the rest that follows them)

So far I have

[cpyrau]*[T][0-9X?][a-oqstv-z]{0,2}([N])?(?(1)(?=[abc]))

Which works for the first test case but for all others it includes the letter before N if it is a or c so I’m getting cT4bc and cT3c for second and third test case.

Any help is appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 454

Answers (1)

JvdV
JvdV

Reputation: 75840

Does this do what you are after?

\b[cpyrau]*T\d(?:(?![a-c]N)[a-oqstv-z]){0,2}

Upvotes: 0

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