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ZygD
ZygD

Reputation: 24366

Second-to-last occurrence of delimiter-split string

What is the regex to extract second-to-last substring when the string is to be split by specified delimiter?

E.g., the delimiter is comma , - I would only like to match words "matchX".

a,b,match1,c
a,match2,b
match3,a
match4,
,,match5,a
,,match6,

Upvotes: 0

Views: 926

Answers (2)

The fourth bird
The fourth bird

Reputation: 163207

Another option could be just a match with a negative lookahead assertion, and exclude matching newlines before asserting the end of the string.

\w+(?=,[^,\n]*$)

Regex demo

Upvotes: 1

ZygD
ZygD

Reputation: 24366

Depending on the use case, one of the below can do it.

When the substring contains any symbol including spaces:

([^,\n]+),[^,]*$

When the substring contains only alphanumeric characters and underscore _:

(\w+),[^,]*$

When the substring contains only alphanumeric characters:

([[:alnum:]]+),[^,]*$

https://regex101.com/r/e987Xr/1

Upvotes: 1

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