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bigbounty
bigbounty

Reputation: 17368

Regex match first group with "-"

I have 2 different words:

BB50AR-B0N5-001-UNI
F361424500

In the first case where - is there, I want the first group as BB50AR-B0N5-001 i.e last group should not come

In the second case where - is not there, I want the first group as F361424500

My attempt:

([\w]+)([-]?)(.*?)($)

The above regex is giving the reverse

Upvotes: 1

Views: 271

Answers (2)

JvdV
JvdV

Reputation: 75840

Maybe one of these two options could help you out. If your pattern would always be the same two possible strings:

^\w+(-\w+){0,2}

Check the online demo

Or if you simply want to exclude the last part of a string if it's delimited:

^\w+$|.+(?=-)

Check the online demo.

Upvotes: 3

Max Xapi
Max Xapi

Reputation: 815

You can use: ^(.+?)(?:-[^-]+?)?$

With:

  • ^: beginning of the string
  • (.+?): capturing group, with:
    • .+?: any character, one or unlimited times, non greedy
  • (?:-[^-]+?)?: non capturing group, 0 or 1 time, with:
    • -[^-]+?: a -, anything excepted - one or unlimited times, non greedy
  • $: end of the string

Example: https://regex101.com/r/D55yEL/3/

Upvotes: 3

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