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anhtle
anhtle

Reputation: 95

Regex - match behind an optional character

I want to match a string that has more than 3 characters and combine with positive look behind an optional character (/). From the input:

100/ABC-12345 10
ABCD
ZZZ

I need to retrieve:

ABC-12345 10
ABCD

I can match them separately but cannot combine them. See my current regex:

(?<=\/).*

Upvotes: 0

Views: 460

Answers (2)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785108

You may use:

(?<=/|^)\w[\w-]{3,}

Updated Regex Demo

Positive lookbehind (?<=/|^) asserts presence of / or start of line behind current position and \w[\w-]{3,} matches at least 4 of word or hyphen characters where first character must be a word character.

Upvotes: 1

Bohemian
Bohemian

Reputation: 425003

Try this:

/?[\w-]{4,}

See live demo.

This matches a slash optionally, then at least 4 of word chars or dashes.

Upvotes: 1

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